Melanie Benson Taylor is Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the editor of The Cambridge History of Native American Literature and the author of two previous monographs: Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (2011); and Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912¿2002 (2008). Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, The Mississippi Quarterly, Texas Studies in Language and Literature, and elsewhere. She is currently editing a Norton Critical Edition of William Faulkner's Light in August and serves as Executive Editor for the journal Native South.
Introduction. Once removed: genealogies of an Indian imaginary
1. Doom and deliverance: William Faulkner's dialectical Indians
2. Confederate spirits: Katherine Anne Porter's bewitching Indians
3. The dark eye: Barry Hannah's terminal Indians
Conclusion. The puppet show is not over
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