TY - JOUR
T1 - The Quileute Dune
T2 - Frank Herbert, Indigeneity, and Empire
AU - Immerwahr, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the British Association for American Studies.
PY - 2022/5/22
Y1 - 2022/5/22
N2 - Frank Herbert's influential science fiction novel Dune (1965) is usually understood as a prescient work of environmentalism. Yet it is also concerned with empire, and not merely in an abstract way. Herbert worked in politics with the men who oversaw the United States' overseas territories, and he took an unusually strong interest in Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest, particularly the Quileute Nation. Conversations with Quileute interlocutors both inspired Dune and help explain Herbert's turn toward environmentalism. This article recovers the neglected imperial context for Herbert's writing, reinterpreting Dune in light of that context.
AB - Frank Herbert's influential science fiction novel Dune (1965) is usually understood as a prescient work of environmentalism. Yet it is also concerned with empire, and not merely in an abstract way. Herbert worked in politics with the men who oversaw the United States' overseas territories, and he took an unusually strong interest in Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest, particularly the Quileute Nation. Conversations with Quileute interlocutors both inspired Dune and help explain Herbert's turn toward environmentalism. This article recovers the neglected imperial context for Herbert's writing, reinterpreting Dune in light of that context.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0021875821000591
DO - 10.1017/S0021875821000591
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111133210
SN - 0021-8758
VL - 56
SP - 191
EP - 216
JO - Journal of American Studies
JF - Journal of American Studies
IS - 2
ER -