The Black Indian in American Literature

1. Introduction Within Our Bosom and on Our Borders: Negotiating Shared Black and Native Histories
Keely Byars-Nichols

2. Assuming the Habit of the Country: John Marrant’s Narrative and Playing Indian
Keely Byars-Nichols

3. Domesticated Savagery: Blackness and Indigeneity in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Elizabeth Stoddard’s Temple House
Keely Byars-Nichols

4. On Precarious Footing: William Faulkner’s Sam Fathers and the Specter of Slavery
Keely Byars-Nichols

5. Black Nationalism and Native Separatism Unhinged: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
Keely Byars-Nichols

6. The First Black Indian: Clinton in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Keely Byars-Nichols

7. Conclusion Toward a Black Indian Poetics and Politics
Keely Byars-Nichols

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, History of the Americas, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Postcolonial/World Literature