“Deftly navigating a staggering array of creative works, critical currents, and cultural contexts, Cherokee Nation scholar Joseph M. Pierce considers questions of relations, kinship, and how Indigenous artists and visionaries can help us realize life-giving worlds in the death-throes of the current imperial order. With personal and poetic imaginings and incisive readings of Indigenous art and scholarship, <em>Speculative Relations</em> is a generative revelation and an urgent, provocative, and generous scholarly contribution. It exemplifies why Pierce is one of the most compelling and dexterous thinkers working at the intersection of Indigenous, queer, and cultural studies today.” - Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), author of <i>Why Indigenous Literatures Matter</i>
Introduction: Speculation, Relations, Worlding, and Repair 1
1.Relate 25
Interlude 1. Remember 41
2. Gesture 48
Interlude 2. Speculate 85
3. Become 87
Interlude 3. Star 123
4. Body 126
Interlude 4. Rock 181
5. Love 185
Conclusion 212
Epilogue: If/Then Statements 218
Acknowledgments 221
Notes 225
Bibliography 249
Index 263