Main entry:

Pierce, Joseph M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Title & Author:

Speculative relations : indigenous worlding and repair / Joseph M. Pierce.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
©2025

Description:

xiii, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-261) and index.
Preface: A story of relation -- Introduction: Speculation, relations, worlding, and repair -- 1. Relate: Interlude 1. Remember -- 2 Gesture: Interlude 2. Speculate -- 3. Become: Interlude 3. Star -- 4. Body: Interlude 4. Rock -- 5. Love -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: If/then statements -- Acknowledgments -- Notes (pages [225]-247) -- Bibliography (pages [249]-261) -- Index..

Summary:

"Indigenous relations are often described in anthropological terms, or as expressions of timeless, unchanging kinship ties. In Speculative Relations, Joseph M. Pierce focuses on the speculative possibilities of relations to enact a reparative mode of critique. Working at the intersections of Cherokee thinking, Indigenous queer theory, literary and cultural studies, and art criticism, Pierce illuminates pathways for understanding and resisting the damages of colonialism, while also pointing to future worlds and imaginaries that enliven Indigenous thought and practice. Speculative Relations offers a new methodology for approaching Indigenous art and culture, revealing how gestures, poetics, and embodiment can uphold tradition, while also harnessing the imaginative capacities of speculation to reimagine what future worlds are possible."-- Provided by publisher.
“Deftly navigating a staggering array of creative works, critical currents, and cultural contexts, Cherokee Nation scholar Joseph M. Pierce considers questions of relations, kinship, and how Indigenous artists and visionaries can help us realize life-giving worlds in the death throes of the current imperial order. With personal and poetic imaginings and incisive readings of Indigenous art and scholarship, Speculative Relations is a generative revelation and an urgent, provocative, and generous scholarly contribution. It exemplifies why Pierce is one of the most compelling and dexterous thinkers working at the intersection of Indigenous, queer, and cultural studies today.”--Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), author of, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter.

ISBN:

9781478028888 (hardcover)
1478028882 (hardcover)
9781478032151 (paperback)
1478032154 (paperback)
(ebook)
9781478061090

Subject:

Cherokee Indians.
Cherokee Indians Social life and customs.
Cherokee literature.
Cherokee art.
Indigenous art.
Indigenous peoples in art.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Indigenous peoples Reparations North America.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Indians of North America.
Littérature cherokee.
Art cherokee.
Art autochtone.
Autochtones dans l'art.
Postcolonialisme et arts.
Indigenous LGBTQ+ people.
Queer theory.

Added entries:

Indigenous worlding and repair

Holdings:

Location: Library main 324148
Call No.: 324148
Copy: 1
Status: Available