Native South 12:1

Volume 12 (2019)

Special Issue on Native Southern Literature
Photo: “Mujer en la Lluvia”
Haizel de la Cruz (photographer)

Introduction: Why Native Southern Literatures Matter
Eric Gary Anderson and Melanie Benson Taylor

“Indigenous Through One’s Southernness”: Reading Native Southern Literature
Keely Byars-Nichols

Imagining Possibility within Policy: LeAnne Howe’s Shell Shaker and Louis Owens’s Bone Game
Gina Caison

“The Yellow Monster”: Reanimating Nuclear Fears in Cherokee Science Fiction
Miriam Brown Spiers

Letting the Other Story Go: The Native South in and beyond the Anthropocene
Eric Gary Anderson and Melanie Benson Taylor

Field Notes
Yum Cháak (Sacred Rain) and “The Little Droplet of Water”
Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright

Yucatec Maya Poetry Selections
Translated by Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright