Speculative Relations

Drawing on Cherokee thinking, Indigenous queer theory, literary and cultural studies, and art criticism, Joseph M. Pierce considers the potential of Indigenous relations to repair the damages of history and imagine new futures.

“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

Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation) 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 .