Books by Melanie Benson Taylor

The first book to explore the abundance of Native American representations in US Southern literature. While many Americans mistakenly assume that Indians were removed from the area in the nineteenth century, Indians' memory, vulnerability, vitality, and frustrated sovereignty haunt the white southern imagination in complex ways.

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.