“Time Travelling and Thought Experiments; or, an (insistently-too-quick) introduction to (some of the work of) Indigenous speculative fiction”

This introduction conceives of a thought experiment with respect to the history of the study of Native North American literatures in order to comment on the comparatively smaller impact Indigenous speculative fiction has had on the study of Indigenous literatures. It broadly surveys lesser-known and out-of-print works alongside canonical works and popular bestsellers to demonstrate the breadth of works published by Indigenous writers in English. The introduction concludes by briefly summarizing the essays published in the special issue.