Beyond Settler Time

“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)

Mark Rifkin is Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of several books, including Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance.