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  vii Acknowledgments  xiii Introduction: The Bio/Geopolitics of Settler States and Indigenous Normativities / René Dietrich  1 1. “You Tell Me Your Stories, and I Will Tell You Mine”: Witnessing and Combating Native Women’s Extirpation in American Indian Literature / Mishuana Goeman  45 2. The Biopolitics of Aging: Indigenous Elders as Elsewhere / Sandy Grande  67 3. The Colonialism of Incarceration / Robert Nichols  85 4. Are Hawaiians Indians? / David Uahikeakalei‘ohu Maile  107 5. Postcolonial Biopolitics and the Hieroglyphs of Democracy / Shona N.Jackson  131 6. Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation / Mark Rifkin  159 7. “I Was Nothing but a Bare Skeleton Walking the Path”: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and Life in Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear / Sabine N. Meyer  177 8. Unseen Wonder: Decolonizing Magical Realism in Kim Scott’s Benang and Witi Ihimaera’s “Maata” / Michael R. Griffiths  197 9. Agency and Art: Survivance with Camera and Crayon / Jacqueline Fear-Segal  219 10. Land through the Camera: Post/Colonial Space and Indigenous Struggles in Birdwatchers (Terra Vermelha) / Kerstin Knopf  245 Contributors  273 Index  277