Preface vii
Acknowledgments xv
1. Indigenous Orientations 1
2. The Silence of Ely S. Parker 49
3. The Duration of the Land 95
4. Ghost Dancing at Century's End 129
Coda. Deferring Juridical Time 179
Notes 193
Bibliography 241
Index 269
Mark Rifkin is Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and the author of several books, including Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance.
"Rifkin offers the compelling argument that challenging normative
settler time engenders new possibilities for Native articulations
of futurity." - Stephanie Lumsden (Studies in American Indian
Literatures) "Rifkin’s book presents a novel and ambitious
perspective in analysing the process of land dispossession and
forced assimilation of Native Americans during the consolidation of
the U.S. national state in the nineteenth century and its
afterlife." - Carolina Aguilera (Ethnic and Racial Studies) "A
theoretically robust and intellectually satisfying work that
challenges readers to think differently not only about the past,
but also about time. . . . A welcome addition to the robust body of
interdisciplinary writing that has become renowned for its thick
descriptions of space and place. . . . Rifkin’s approach is
innovative, his analysis is theoretically sophisticated, the
scaffolding upon which his analysis hangs is inspiring, and the
vocabulary he advances is both useful and empowering." - Kieth Thor
Carlson (American Historical Review) "A quite brilliant work of
theory. . . ." - James Mackay (American Literary History) "Rifkin’s
work moves us toward a more expansive understanding of the ways in
which collective memory, ceremonial practices, prophesy, oral
traditions, and place- based knowledges inform Indigenous
corpo-realities and shape quotidian experiences of synchronously
felt pasts, presents, and futures. This text is a critical addition
to Native American studies and should be read by all striving for a
decolonial future."
- Sarah Whitt (American Indian Quarterly) "It is impossible
in a brief review to do justice to the full richness of Beyond
Settler Time. Rifkin is meticulous in positioning his own work in
relation to other scholarship, and while at times this forces the
reader to work through the extant discourse surrounding a
particular novel or text to get at the new interpretive kernel,
that work is always rewarding. . . . Beyond Settler Time is a
valuable contribution to the field of indigenous studies." - David
J. Carlson (Journal of American Studies) "Beyond Settler Time
provides a necessary and important intervention in theorizations of
time in Native American literature and history. Rifkin presents a
set of analytic tools that scholars can employ when engaging
Indigenous texts with temporal formations, shedding light upon
crucial differences in Native American conceptions of time, place,
and becoming." - Penelope Kelsey (Western American Literature)
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