On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University
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Print Materials:
Anderson, Eric Gary. "Native American Literature, Ecocriticism, and the South: The Inaccessible Worlds of Linda Hogan's Power." In South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith, 165-183. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. .
---. "Rethinking Indigenous Southern Communities." In "The U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Collection of Position Statements." American Literature 78: 4 (December 2006). Special Issue on "Global Contexts, Local Literature: The New Southern Studies." Edited by Kathryn McKee and Annette Trefzer. 730-732.
Anonymous. A Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of Mrs. Jane Johns, Who Was Barbarously Wounded and Scalped by Seminole Indians, in East Florida. Charleston, S. C.: Burke & Giles, 1837.
Bevis, William. "Native American Novels: Homing In." Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature. Swann, Brian and Arnold Krupat, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987: 580-620.
Deloria, Philip J. "American Indians, American Studies, and the ASA." American Quarterly 55: 4 (December 2003): 669-680.
Fetterley, Judith and Marjorie Pryse. Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Godfrey, Mary. An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War; and of the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and her Four Female Children. New York: D. F. Blanchard and others, 1836.
Harjo, Joy. She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983.
Howe, LeAnne. Evidence of Red: Poems and Prose. Cambridge, England: SALT, 2005.
---. Shell Shaker. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 2001.
Huhndorf, Shari. "Literature and the Politics of Native American Studies." PMLA 120: 5 (October 2005): 1618-1627.
" Interview with Stephen Graham Jones." Fiction Collective 2. 16 July 2006.
Jones, Stephen Graham. All the Beautiful Sinners. New York: Rugged Land, 2003.
---. "Domestic Man." Southern Hum. (Issue One). 16 July 2006.
Jones, Suzanne W. and Sharon Monteith, eds. South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Justice, Daniel Heath. Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
---. "We're Not There Yet, Kemo Sabe: Positing a Future for American Indian Literary Studies." American Indian Quarterly 25: 2 (Spring 2001): 256-269.
Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. New York: Harcourt, 1942.
Kreyling, Michael. Inventing Southern Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
---. "Toward 'A New Southern Studies.'" South Central Review 22: 1 (Spring 2005): 4-18.
Ladd, Barbara. "Literary Studies: The Southern United States, 2005." PMLA 120: 5 (October 2005): 1628-1639.
Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr., and James W. Parins, eds. Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875-1935. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
"LPTape 1." Interview. Stephen Graham Jones's webpage. 16 July 2006.
Maddox, Lucy. Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
McAdams, Janet. Feral. Cambridge, England: SALT, 2007.
---. The Island of Lost Luggage. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
McKee, Kathryn and Annette Trefzer, eds. American Literature 78: 4 (December 2006). Special Issue on "Global Contexts, Local Literature: The New Southern Studies."
McWhirter, David, ed. South Central Review 22:1 (Spring 2005). Special issue on "'Southern Literature'/Southern Cultures."
Miles, Tya and Sharon P. Holland, eds. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Owens, Louis. Bone Game. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
---. The Sharpest Sight. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green. The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast. New York: Columbia UP, 2001.
Rosenberg, Roberta. "Native American Literature." In The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, edited by Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda MacKethan, 526-530. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Smith, Jon and Deborah Cohn, eds. Look Away!: The U. S. South in New World Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
Trefzer, Annette. Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.
Warrior, Robert. "A Room of One's Own at the ASA: An Indigenous Provocation." American Quarterly 55: 4 (December 2003): 681-687.
---. Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Weaver, Jace. That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Womack, Craig. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Yaeger, Patricia. Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Links:
Native Authors with Southeastern Connections:
Joy Harjo
http://www.joyharjo.com/
LeAnne Howe
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/LAHowe/
LeAnne Howe's film Spiral of Fire
http://indiancountrydiaries.org/toolkits.html
Stephen Graham Jones
http://www.stephengrahamjones.net
Janet McAdams
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/McAdams/
Louis Owens
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/Owens/
Archives, Research Centers, Institutes, etc.
American Native Press Archives
http://anpa.ualr.edu/
Institute of Native American Studies (University of Georgia) Digital Resources
http://www.instituteofnativeamericanstudies.com/resources.php
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Academic Associations:
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL)
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)
http://www.wm.edu/english/sssl/
Tribal Nations:
Cherokee Nation
http://www.cherokee.org/
Chickasaw Nation
http://www.chickasaw.net/site06/index.htm
Choctaw Nation (Oklahoma)
http://www.choctawnation.com/
Mississippi Band of Choctaws
http://www.choctaw.org/
Muscogee (Creek) Nation
http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/
Osage Nation
http://www.osagetribe.com/
Seminole Tribe of Florida
http://www.seminoletribe.com/
Anderson, Eric Gary. "Native American Literature, Ecocriticism, and the South: The Inaccessible Worlds of Linda Hogan's Power." In South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith, 165-183. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. .
---. "Rethinking Indigenous Southern Communities." In "The U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Collection of Position Statements." American Literature 78: 4 (December 2006). Special Issue on "Global Contexts, Local Literature: The New Southern Studies." Edited by Kathryn McKee and Annette Trefzer. 730-732.
Anonymous. A Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of Mrs. Jane Johns, Who Was Barbarously Wounded and Scalped by Seminole Indians, in East Florida. Charleston, S. C.: Burke & Giles, 1837.
Bevis, William. "Native American Novels: Homing In." Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature. Swann, Brian and Arnold Krupat, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987: 580-620.
Deloria, Philip J. "American Indians, American Studies, and the ASA." American Quarterly 55: 4 (December 2003): 669-680.
Fetterley, Judith and Marjorie Pryse. Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Godfrey, Mary. An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War; and of the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and her Four Female Children. New York: D. F. Blanchard and others, 1836.
Harjo, Joy. She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983.
Howe, LeAnne. Evidence of Red: Poems and Prose. Cambridge, England: SALT, 2005.
---. Shell Shaker. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 2001.
Huhndorf, Shari. "Literature and the Politics of Native American Studies." PMLA 120: 5 (October 2005): 1618-1627.
" Interview with Stephen Graham Jones." Fiction Collective 2. 16 July 2006.
Jones, Stephen Graham. All the Beautiful Sinners. New York: Rugged Land, 2003.
---. "Domestic Man." Southern Hum. (Issue One). 16 July 2006.
Jones, Suzanne W. and Sharon Monteith, eds. South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Justice, Daniel Heath. Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
---. "We're Not There Yet, Kemo Sabe: Positing a Future for American Indian Literary Studies." American Indian Quarterly 25: 2 (Spring 2001): 256-269.
Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. New York: Harcourt, 1942.
Kreyling, Michael. Inventing Southern Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
---. "Toward 'A New Southern Studies.'" South Central Review 22: 1 (Spring 2005): 4-18.
Ladd, Barbara. "Literary Studies: The Southern United States, 2005." PMLA 120: 5 (October 2005): 1628-1639.
Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr., and James W. Parins, eds. Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875-1935. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
"LPTape 1." Interview. Stephen Graham Jones's webpage. 16 July 2006.
Maddox, Lucy. Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
McAdams, Janet. Feral. Cambridge, England: SALT, 2007.
---. The Island of Lost Luggage. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
McKee, Kathryn and Annette Trefzer, eds. American Literature 78: 4 (December 2006). Special Issue on "Global Contexts, Local Literature: The New Southern Studies."
McWhirter, David, ed. South Central Review 22:1 (Spring 2005). Special issue on "'Southern Literature'/Southern Cultures."
Miles, Tya and Sharon P. Holland, eds. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Owens, Louis. Bone Game. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
---. The Sharpest Sight. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green. The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast. New York: Columbia UP, 2001.
Rosenberg, Roberta. "Native American Literature." In The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, edited by Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda MacKethan, 526-530. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Smith, Jon and Deborah Cohn, eds. Look Away!: The U. S. South in New World Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
Trefzer, Annette. Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.
Warrior, Robert. "A Room of One's Own at the ASA: An Indigenous Provocation." American Quarterly 55: 4 (December 2003): 681-687.
---. Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Weaver, Jace. That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Womack, Craig. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Yaeger, Patricia. Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Links:
Native Authors with Southeastern Connections:
Joy Harjo
http://www.joyharjo.com/
LeAnne Howe
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/LAHowe/
LeAnne Howe's film Spiral of Fire
http://indiancountrydiaries.org/toolkits.html
Stephen Graham Jones
http://www.stephengrahamjones.net
Janet McAdams
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/McAdams/
Louis Owens
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/Owens/
Archives, Research Centers, Institutes, etc.
American Native Press Archives
http://anpa.ualr.edu/
Institute of Native American Studies (University of Georgia) Digital Resources
http://www.instituteofnativeamericanstudies.com/resources.php
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Academic Associations:
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL)
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)
http://www.wm.edu/english/sssl/
Tribal Nations:
Cherokee Nation
http://www.cherokee.org/
Chickasaw Nation
http://www.chickasaw.net/site06/index.htm
Choctaw Nation (Oklahoma)
http://www.choctawnation.com/
Mississippi Band of Choctaws
http://www.choctaw.org/
Muscogee (Creek) Nation
http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/
Osage Nation
http://www.osagetribe.com/
Seminole Tribe of Florida
http://www.seminoletribe.com/
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