The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures

ISBN-13: 9780367754822 / Miękka / 2023 / 238 str.

Kristina Baudemann

Opis

This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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