Description:
Disturbing Indians describes how William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle, and Caroline Gordon reimagined and reconstructed the Native American past in their work.
Review Quotes:
"Asserting that regional, national, and international discourses and ideologies created and constrained Southern Renaissance representations of 'Indian-ness, ' Trefzer argues that Andrew Lytle, Caroline Gordon, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty were spurred by archaeological discoveries of Native artifacts and by anxieties about modern life to use 'the Indian signifier' to critique American nationalism, expansionism, and materialism. Recommended." --CHOICE