Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University and author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910.
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Preface: A Story of Relation ix 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
"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, Speculative Relations 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 Why Indigenous Literatures Matter