Red Land to the South

James H. Cox is associate professor of English and associate director of Native American and Indigenous studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions.

"In this refreshing, much-needed study, James H. Cox crosses colonialist borders to show how mid-twentieth-century indigenous writers from the United States envisioned Mexico and Mexican indigeneity. With an elegantly focused critical eye and a rigorous sense of cultural politics, Cox uncovers a transnational indigenous gaze that cultural and literary critics have often evaded or felt at a loss to understand. The Red Land to the South will provoke a host of conversations about American Indian writing and its desire to understand Indianness in ways at once transnational and local." -Robert Dale Parker, author of Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: American Indian Literature and Indigenous Mexico1. Dreadful Armies: Indigenistas and Other Criminals in Todd Downing’s Detective Novels2. ¡Indian Territory!: Lynn Riggs’ Indigenous Geographies3. “Mexico Is an Indian Country”: American Indian Diplomacy in Native Nonfiction and Todd Downing’s The Mexican Earth4. The Red Land of the South: Indigenous Kinship in D’Arcy McNickle’s Runner in the Sun5. The Return to Mexico: Gerald Vizenor and Leslie Marmon Silko at the QuincentennialConclusion: Revolutions before the RenaissanceNotesBibliographyIndex