2024/11/13 by Henzi, Sarah
paper · doi:10.22024/unikent/03/tm.1168
In this article, I look at Simon Ortiz’s “Men on the Moon” (1999), Richard Van Camp’s “On the Wings of this Prayer” (2013) and Eden Robinson’s “Terminal Avenue” (2004) as examples of Indigenous writers exploring contemporary environmental and sustainability concerns, including collectively shared, and more justly distributed and inhabited spaces, within the realm of possibility of settler-colonialism, through the malleable modus operandi of SF. I argue that these publications are examples of intermedial (wonder)works that attest, on the one hand, to the complexity of the process of textualizing or otherwise materializing storytelling traditions and concepts of kinship and, on the other hand, to the creation of alternative forms of political action, social transformation and healing. I read these stories as, on the one hand, restorative of Indigenous bodies, nations, and epistemologies, at the very center of and through narratives of resurgence and, on the other hand, as artistic interventions, they are not only generative of change, but call for respectful, consensual, and critical forms of engagement.