Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life

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

René Dietrich and Kerstin Knopf, editors