TY - BOOK ID - 85553283 TI - The Indian in American Southern literature PY - 2020 SN - 110886189X 1108864244 1108853285 1108495311 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Indians in literature. KW - American fiction KW - Indians of Central America in literature KW - Indians of Mexico in literature KW - Indians of North America in literature KW - Indians of South America in literature KW - Indians of the West Indies in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Southern states KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85553283 AB - Indians are everywhere and nowhere in the US South. Cloaked by a rhetoric of disappearance after Indian Removal, actual southeastern tribal groups are largely invisible but immortalized in regional mythologies, genealogical lore, romanticized stereotypes, and unpronounceable place names. These imaginary 'Indians' compose an ideological fiction inextricable from that of the South itself. Often framed as hindrances to the Cotton Kingdom, Indians were in fact active participants in the plantation economy and chattel slavery before and after Removal. Dialectical tropes of Indigeneity linger in the white southern imagination in order to both conceal and expose the tangle of land, labor, and race as formative, disruptive categories of being and meaning. This book is not, finally, about the recovery of the region's lost Indians, but a reckoning with their inaccessible traces, ambivalent functions, and the shattering implications of their repressed significance for modern southern identity. ER -