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Fictions of Land and Flesh - Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation

English · Hardback

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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.

List of contents










Acknowledgments  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


About the author










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.

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors Mark Rifkin
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.08.2019
 
EAN 9781478004257
ISBN 978-1-4780-0425-7
No. of pages 336
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore

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