Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation

Mark Rifkin

Published by Duke University Press 2019

Fictions of Land and Flesh

Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation

Mark Rifkin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478005285

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About this book

Mark Rifkin turns to black and indigenous speculative fiction to show how it offers a site to better understand black and indigenous political movements' differing orientations in ways that can foster forms of mutual engagement and cooperation without subsuming them into a single political framework in the name of solidarity.

Author / Editor information

Mark Rifkin is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and is the author of six books, most recently Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“Fictions of Land and Flesh considers the points at which Black and Indigenous studies might relate across histories and struggles. It does so with an eye toward the necessity of that engagement and the danger of conflating the urgencies that constitute those histories and struggles. With characteristic brilliance and creativity, Mark Rifkin turns to Black and Indigenous futurist work as a way to produce that difficult but necessary dialogue.”

-- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of One-Dimensional Queer

“Anchored in the contemporary movements of #NoDAPL and Black Lives Matter, Fictions of Land and Flesh is a welcome and expert guide to thinking through the resonances and impasses that attend Black and Indigenous articulations of justice. Essential reading in American studies.”

-- Beth H. Piatote, author of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. On The Impasse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Fungible Becoming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
3. Carceral Space and Fugitive Motion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
4. The Maroon Matrix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Coda: Diplomacy in the Undercommons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: August 23, 2019
ISBN: 9781478005285