Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 177-196
Description
Critical essay which uses Gerald Vizenor’s framework of “Indigenous Survivance” to describe Kwaymullina’s novels The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2012), The Disappearance of Ember Crow (2013), and The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (2015) as “a “teaching story” whose strength resides in its use of the apocalypse and the centralizing of Country as collective tactics of survivance and cultural brokering relevant to the experiences of living in a (post)colonial world."
Introduces the special issue of Extrapolation; discusses the Speculative Fiction (SF) genre, the decolonizing influence of Indigenous SF authors, and the contributions to this issue of Extrapolation.
Uses Jeff Barnaby’s film, File Under Miscellaneous, and SyFy’s series, Helix, to discuss the subtleties inherent in Gerald Vizenor’s concept of “survivance” and Archille Mbembe’s competing logics of “martyrdom and survial.” Considers these as elements of resistance to colonial biopolitics.