Fictions of Land and Flesh

“Fictions of Land and Flesh considers the points at which Black and Indigenous studies might relate across histories and struggles. It does so with an eye toward the necessity of that engagement and the danger of conflating the urgencies that constitute those histories and struggles. With characteristic brilliance and creativity, Mark Rifkin turns to Black and Indigenous futurist work as a way to produce that difficult but necessary dialogue.” - Roderick A. Ferguson, author of One-Dimensional Queer

“Anchored in the contemporary movements of #NoDAPL and Black Lives Matter, Fictions of Land and Flesh is a welcome and expert guide to thinking through the resonances and impasses that attend Black and Indigenous articulations of justice. Essential reading in American studies.” - Beth H. Piatote, author of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

"Rifkin engages artfully the works of Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, Nalo Hopkinson, Andrea Hairston, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, Drew Hayden Taylor, and Mari Karisato, in addition to other theoretical conversation partners, to analyze the social-political imaginaries of belonging and placemaking, fugitivity and marronage, landlessness and sovereignty, governance and self-determination." - Sakena Young Scaggs, Native American and Indigenous Studies