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The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures book cover

1st Edition

The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures

By Kristina Baudemann Copyright 2022
246 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts. Asking how different Indigenous works imagine the future and how they negotiate settler colonial visions of what is to come, the chapters illustrate that the future is not an immutable entity but a malleable textual/digital product that can function as both a colonial tool and a catalyst for... Read more

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: "Turning Our Backs On Mars" – Futures Seen Through The Window Of An Indigenous Starship

2 Futureanalysis: Toward A Critical Paradigm

3 Apocryphal Futures: Indigenous And Other Archives

Part I: (Un)Writing The Future: Textual Imaginaries

4 Apocalypse And The Archive In Gerald Vizenor’s Future World Novels

5 Textuality And Futurity In Stephen Graham Jones’s The Fast Red Road, The Bird Is Gone, And Ledfeather

Part II: (Dis)Simulating The Future: Imaginaries In Cyberspace

6 The Future Is Technological: Virtual Archives In Skawennati’s Timetraveller™

7 The Future Is Sovereign: Post-American Imaginaries In 2167

8 The Future Is Female: Skawennati’s She Falls For Ages And The Peacemaker Returns

9 Conclusion: The Future As Strategy

Biography

Kristina Baudemann is an instructor and research assistant in the Department for English and American Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg in Germany.

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