Examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary American South. In so doing the book advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the American South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than mere geographical proximity.

MELANIE BENSON TAYLOR is an assistant professor of English and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 and Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (both Georgia).