<i>ALMANAC OF THE DEAD</i>: THE DREAM OF THE FIFTH WORLD IN THE BORDERLANDS

Muthyala, John

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“…13 A number of reports on the "radiological event" at the WIPP as well as updates on its reopening can be found at www.wipp.energy.gov /wipprecovery/recovery.html. 14 Some of the best analyses of temporality in Almanac of the Dead are Adamson 2001, Huhndorf 2009, Powers 1999, Muthyala 2003, and Reed 2009.…”

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Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée

Hurley¹

2017

American Literature

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This essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear waste commissioned by the Department of Energy to show that a risk-based realism is used to maintain the status quo of settler colonialism. It then turns to a countermodeling of the futures of nuclear waste by Leslie Marmon Silko in Almanac of the Dead (1991), where uranium's longue durée future, impossible to imagine from a human perspective, recasts the present as a space in which the unlikely, implausible, and unrealistic saturate the everyday. For Silko, the apocalyptic futurelessness that nuclear waste seeds into our present is a vital formal resource for unsettling colonial realism in the contemporary United States.

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Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée

Hurley¹

2017

American Literature

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Leslie Marmon Silko’s Tribal Internationalist Perspectives on World Order in Almanac Of The Dead : Remapping Culture and History Beyond National Borders

Croisy¹

2020

Revue Française D’études Américaines

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Dans son roman Almanac of the Dead , l’écrivaine autochtone Leslie Marmon Silko s’engage dans des stratégies transculturelles d’analyse des sociétés contemporaines d’Amérique du Nord. Son projet fait tomber les barrières entre groupes culturels à l’intérieur et au-delà des frontières nationales des pays qu’elle représente et critique--en particulier les États-Unis et le Mexique. Ce projet prophétise la montée de l’internationalisme en tant que processus politique essentiel de remise en question, et à juste titre, de l’existence légale et de l’utilité des États-nations qui sont présentés dans le roman comme les principaux protagonistes de la désintégration physique, culturelle et économique des communautés culturelles (autochtones et non autochtones) vivant à l’intérieur de leurs frontières.

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ALMANAC OF THE DEAD: THE DREAM OF THE FIFTH WORLD IN THE BORDERLANDS

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Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée

Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée

Leslie Marmon Silko’s Tribal Internationalist Perspectives on World Order in Almanac Of The Dead : Remapping Culture and History Beyond National Borders

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