ILAT fyi: CFP

[Phil Cash Cash]

my apologies, I did not see the deadline that has already past! Phil


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> From: sfra-l-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [sfra-l-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] on
> behalf of John Rieder [rieder at hawaii.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 11:36 AM
> To: sfra-l List
> Subject:  call for papers, special issue of Extrapolation on Indigenous
> Futurism
>
> Call for Papers
>
> Extrapolation special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L.
> Dillon, (Anishinaabe), Michael Levy, and John Rieder.
>
> In the last decade and a half, a number of scholars have explored the way
> that SF throughout the last century and a half  has borne a close
> relationship to colonial, and later postcolonial history, discourses, and
> ideologies. One of the most prominent features of colonial ideology in SF
> has been the widespread assumption that the future will be determined by
> the technological and cultural dominance of the West, the “progress” of
> which often entails the assumption that non-Western cultures will either
> disappear or  assimilate themselves to Western norms. Indigenous Futurism
> designates a growing movement of writing, both fictional and critical, that
> envisions the future from the point of view of Indigenous histories,
> traditions, and knowledges—and in so doing situates the present and the
> past in ways that challenge (neo/post)colonial ideologies of progress. This
> special issue of Extrapolation aims to bring together critical and
> scholarly explorations of and responses to fictional or theoretical and
> critical work in or on Indigenous SF, where SF is broadly conceived of as
> including science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, and slipstream.
>
> Topics might include but are not limited to:
>
>   *          fictional and theoretical confrontations of Western science
> and Indigenous knowledges
>   *         use of Indigenous traditions in fiction or theory to envision
> a sustainable future
>   *         responses to and evaluation of Indigenously-inflected SF in
> any medium from any geographic location
>   *         representation and use of Indigenous traditions in classic SF
> texts
>   *         Indigeneity and SF adventure fiction, Indigeneity and space
> opera, Indigeneity and the New Weird
>   *         challenges of publishing and distributing Indigenous Futurism
>
> We invite submissions of 5,000-12,000 words to John Rieder (
> rieder at hawaii.edu<mailto:rieder at hawaii.edu>) by April 1, 2015.
> Submissions should conform to the usual requirements of Extrapolation.
>
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