Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life

RenÉ Dietrich is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the Catholic University of EichstÄtt-Ingolstadt and author of Revising and Remembering (after) the End: American Post-Apocalyptic Poetry Since 1945 from Ginsberg to ForchÉ.Kerstin Knopf is Professor of North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen and author of Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North America.

• Foreword / Alyosha Goldstein  viiAcknowledgments  xiiiIntroduction: The Bio/Geopolitics of Settler States and Indigenous Normativities / RenÉ Dietrich  11. “You Tell Me Your Stories, and I Will Tell You Mine”: Witnessing and Combating Native Women’s Extirpation in American Indian Literature / Mishuana Goeman  452. The Biopolitics of Aging: Indigenous Elders as Elsewhere / Sandy Grande  673. The Colonialism of Incarceration / Robert Nichols  854. Are Hawaiians Indians? / David Uahikeakalei‘ohu Maile  1075. Postcolonial Biopolitics and the Hieroglyphs of Democracy / Shona N.Jackson  1316. Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation / Mark Rifkin  1597. “I Was Nothing but a Bare Skeleton Walking the Path”: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and Life in Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear / Sabine N. Meyer  1778. Unseen Wonder: Decolonizing Magical Realism in Kim Scott’s Benang and Witi Ihimaera’s “Maata” / Michael R. Griffiths  1979. Agency and Art: Survivance with Camera and Crayon / Jacqueline Fear-Segal  21910. Land through the Camera: Post/Colonial Space and Indigenous Struggles in Birdwatchers (Terra Vermelha) / Kerstin Knopf  245Contributors  273Index  277

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