Making love in(to) the future: Queer indigenous literatures and the politics of aftercare

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dc.contributor.advisorManshel, Hannah M.
dc.contributor.authorPruitt, River
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-27T22:21:21Z
dc.date.available2025-06-27T22:21:21Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.degreePh.D.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/111044
dc.subjectIndigenous studies
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectEnglish literature
dc.subjectFuturisms
dc.subjectIndigiqueer Literature
dc.subjectQueer Indigenous Literature
dc.subjectRadical Care
dc.subjectSpeculative Fiction
dc.subjectTwo-Spirit
dc.titleMaking love in(to) the future: Queer indigenous literatures and the politics of aftercare
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.abstractIndigiqueer speculative fiction offers a reflection of colonial pasts and opens the window for potential Indigiqueer futures where we might survive and thrive. The author establishes aftercare as a methodology and a practice of reading essential to understanding the presence of care within literature in the post-apocalyptic contemporary and the ability of such care to transform and transfer across bodies, space, and time. The author additionally takes up a metaphor and methodology of traditional pottery making to encapsulate steps of embodied care through each chapter. This dissertation engages with the radical care present within/through Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories, Leanne Simpson’s As We Have Always Done, Amanda Strong’s Biidaaban: The Dawn Comes, Louis Esmé Cruz’s “Birthsong for Muin, in Red,”Adam Garnet Jones’s “History of the New World,” jaye simpson’s “Ark of the Turtle’s Back,” as well as auto-ethnography, and considers how stories allow for transitions to new futures while simultaneously holding space for the complexities of loss and life, mourning and joy, and an abundance of queer Indigenous love. The author concludes that Indigiqueer speculative fiction as a genre offers us unique glimpses into futures of radical care that will help us become as we move toward more uncertain times.
dcterms.extent242 pages
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa
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