Melanie benson taylor explores a significant family resemblance between native american writing and non indian culture in the modern us south indian literature she observes displays a fixation on a native american lost cause every bit as powerful as some white southerners obsession with the civil war and reconstruction for instance native writers dwell upon tribal histories . Melanie benson taylor reconstructing the native south american indian literature and the lost cause athens u of georgia p 2011 isbn 98 0 87 023 4066 1 253 pp eric gary anderson george mason university published under the imprint of the university of georgia presss paradigm shifting new southern studies series reconstructing the. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more. Book description in reconstructing the native south melanie benson taylor examines the diverse body of native american literature in the contemporary us south literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded removal and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. Reconstructing the native south american indian literature and the lost cause new southern studies amazones taylor melanie benson benson taylor melanie libros en idiomas extranjeros