The Black Indian in American Literature

Keely Byars-Nichols is an Assistant Professor of English at Mount Olive College, USA.

Introduction: Within Our Borders and On Our Borders: Negotiating Shared Black and Native Histories 1. Assuming the Habit of the Country: John Marrant's Narrative and Playing Indian 2. Domesticated Savagery: Blackness and Indigeneity in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Elizabeth Stoddard's Temple House 3. On Precarious Footing: William Faulkner's Sam Fathers and the Specter of Slavery 4. Black Nationalism and Native Separatism Unhinged: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon 5. The First Black Indian: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead Conclusion: Toward a Black Indian Poetics and Politics