Category Speculative Fiction
ENGL 373: Indigenous Speculative Fiction
Note: In the early marketing materials for this class I used a creative commons image of Marina Bay Sand and the Gardens by the Bay supertrees in Singapore. Using this image for a course like this erases Singapore’s own colonial history and the oppression of the Indigenous Malays. I have removed the image, but it may […]
“Poor Impulse Control”: Remediation as a Decolonial Reading Practice
In my Indigenous new media and digital storytelling class, my students and I use remediation as a means to interrogate text and to consider what sovereignty might mean in terms of art. Remediation—refashioning one media in another—provides the opportunity to question modernist binaries between old and new, tradition and innovation, and to make art in […]
“Poor Impulse Control”: Remediation as a Decolonial Reading Practice
In my Indigenous new media and digital storytelling class, my students and I use remediation as a means to interrogate text and to consider what sovereignty might mean in terms of art. Remediation—refashioning one media in another—provides the opportunity to question modernist binaries between old and new, tradition and innovation, and to make art in […]
“What’s A Story Like You Doing In A Place Like This?”: Cyberspace and Indigenous Futurism
For many uninformed readers Indigenous Science Fiction (sf) is an oxymoron. It isn’t simply that these readers balk at the thought of an Indigenous person in outer space (although these representations are few and far between in mainstream media); when it comes to intersections of indigeneity and techne, the stumbling block often comes much earlier. […]
“What’s A Story Like You Doing In A Place Like This?”: Cyberspace, New Media and Indigenous Speculative Fiction
For many uninformed readers Indigenous Science Fiction (sf) is an oxymoron. But Indigenous authors, programmers and artists have been imaging futures in speculative fiction and the digital for decades.
“Doughnut holes”: Nalo Hopkinson, Speculative Fiction and the State of Exception
“‘How do you mean, ‘doughnut hole’?’ Ti-Jeanne had asked. ‘That’s what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run into the suburbs” (Brown Girl in the Ring 11). Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring is an award-winning, speculative fiction novel with a plot structured around the Teme-Augama First Nations land claims battle. The founding […]
“Doughnut holes”: Speculative Fiction, Myths of Dystopia and the Settler State of Exception
Nalo Hopkinson’s speculative fiction novel Brown Girl in the Ring is a fictionalized extension of the on-going court battle between the Canadian state and the Teme-Augama of Northern Ontario. Read through the lens of redress and reconciliation it provides unique insight into settler anxieties over the contemporary “land back” movement.
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