Description
Book SynopsisMark 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.
Trade Review“
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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. On the Impasse 15
2. Fungible Becoming 73
3. Carceral Space and Fugitive Motion 117
4. The Maroon Matrix 168
Coda: Diplomacy in the Undercommons 220
Notes 233
Bibliography 287
Index 313
