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The horror of settler colonialism: Naomi Simone Borwein (ed.), Global Indigenous Horror, University Press of Mississippi, 2025

22Sep25

Description: The volume Global Indigenous Horror is meant to elicit discussion. Contributions herein are an exploration of what Indigenous Horror is and to whom. Beginning with a preface by Cheyenne and Arapaho Horror writer Shane Hawk, the book is structured into four parts, and grounded in an Indigenous journey/ing approach to knowledge acquisition, as advocated by various Indigenous scholars. Part 1 focuses on Indigenous ways of knowing and theorizing. Part 2 offers further examples of Indigenous Horror in the context of cultural and literary practices, while further extending discourses discussed in the book to the literal level. Part 3 continues the exploratory ‘journey’ with examples of Indigenizing Horror and Gothic from various global perspectives. Part 4 contains illustrative interviews with speculative writers of Indigenous descent—including Shane Hawk (Cheyenne and Arapaho), Dan Rabarts (Ngāti Porou), Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfoot), Gregory C. Loui (Kānaka Maoli), and Gina Cole (Pasifika). Part 4 offers actualizations of hypothetical concepts in the pages of Horror and other speculative fiction. The Epilogue chapter is an act of “Dis/insp/secting Global Indigenous Horror”—as a field of study, a hybrid genre, and a volume. This epilogue is comprised of an academic conversation or dialogue between settler and Indigenous scholars, and as metacommentary is a counterpoint to interviews with Indigenous writers in Part 4. By extending the dialogue about what Global Indigenous Horror is, the epilogue furthers the synoptic praxis of the volume. In the process (or journey/ing) towards an understanding of Global Indigenous Horror, contributions offer a methodological toolbox to investigate cultural practices and literary (and supra-literary) approaches to Indigenous Horror, ways of theorizing, and ways of knowing.


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