Description
Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing how non-Native audiences in the region came to imagine indigeneity through the presentation of specious histories presented in regional literary texts, and she examines how Indigenous people work against these narratives to maintain sovereign land claims in their home spaces through their own literary and cultural productions. As Caison demonstrates, these conversations in the U.S. South have consequences for how present-day conservative political discourses resonate across the United States.
Assembling a newly constituted archive that includes regional theatrical and musical performances, pre-Civil War literatures, and contemporary novels, Caison illuminates the U.S. South's continued investment in settler colonialism and the continued Indigenous resistance to this paradigm. Ultimately, she concludes that the region is indeed made up of red states, but perhaps not in the way readers initially imagine.Author: Gina Caison
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 11/15/2020
Pages: 298
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780820358796
ISBN10: 0820358797
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- Literary Criticism | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
GINA CAISON is an assistant professor of English at Georgia State University. She is also the coeditor, with Lisa Hinrichsen and Stephanie Rountree, of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television.