Special Topics Paper: Indigenous Futurisms
“Indigenous Futurisms: The Transformative Potential of Science Fiction’s ‘What If’ Appeal” Click Here For Full Paper (This paper has been reorganized for the blog) Science Fiction is an intellectual genre (comprised of multiple subgenres) that asks the question, “what if?”; this is the core of its appeal (Rosenberg, 1982, p.173). Science Fiction, or “SF”, “posits worlds and technologies which could exist. Science rather than magic, drives these speculative tales, and the science must be accurate and true…” (Saricks, 2009, p.245). Also known as Speculative and Visionary [1] Fiction, despite its history of male dominated creators and audiences [2] , and it’s “saturation” with “race thinking” of its particular time, the genre is “fertile” terrain for creators who question the status quo (Carrington,2016, p.2, Ertung, 2011, p.77, Saricks, 2009, p.246). From Feminist Science Fiction writers in the 1970s, to Cyberpunk [3] in the 1980s and early ‘90s (Pat Cadigan, Synners) to Afro...