Red States - 9780820353357

Red StatesIndigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies\nAuthor(s): Gina Caison\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820353357, 978-0820353357\nSynopsis\nRed States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the [url] South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the [url] 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 [url] South have consequences for how present-day conservative political discourses resonate.