Survivance in Indigenous Science Fictions: Vizenor, Silko, Glancy, and the Rejection of Imperial Victimry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David M. Higgins
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 51-72
Description
Critical essay examines the ways that mainstream speculative fictions (SF) preference colonial narratives by placing white men in a victim role, thereby absolving them of guilt and granting them the moral authority of retributive agency. Uses Vizenor’s survivance paradigms to illustrate Indigenous SF’s rejection of the victim position, and resistance to colonial discourse rooted in oppositional duality.