ABSTRACT

My contribution to this cluster seeks to situate and understand the Vita Haroldi through slipstream — a genre of Indigenous Sci-Fi writing that enacts temporal sovereignty in the past, present, and future. The Vita Haroldi (BL Harley MS 3776), a story about King Harold II’s life living in the Welsh borderlands after the Battle of Hastings, can be understood as an alternate temporality constructed as a response to a crisis. Specifically, this essay will read Vita Haroldi alongside Gerald Vizenor’s short story “Custer on the Slipstream” which details the resurrections of General George Armstrong Custer, the infamous US soldier who graduated bottom of his class at West Point in 1861 and was killed by the Oceti Sakowin and their allies at the Battle of Greasy Grass in 1876. This essay will not “i/Indigenize” Harold or early English people more broadly, but instead open up the productions of early medieval settlers to the gaze of contemporary Indigenous scholars, and offer a temporally sovereign theoretical approach to early medieval narrative.

摘要

我对这个集群的贡献旨在通过滑流来定位和理解Vita Haroldi——一种在过去、现在和未来制定时间主权的本土科幻写作类型。Vita Haroldi (BL Harley MS 3776) 是关于哈罗德二世国王在黑斯廷斯战役后生活在威尔士边境的故事，可以理解为为应对危机而构建的替代时间。具体来说，这篇文章将阅读Vita Haroldi与杰拉尔德·维泽诺的短篇小说“滑流上的卡斯特”一起，详细描述了乔治·阿姆斯特朗·卡斯特将军的复活，这位臭名昭著的美国士兵于 1861 年在西点军校毕业，并在奥塞蒂·萨科温 (Oceti Sakowin) 及其盟友的战役中被杀。 1876 年的油腻草。这篇文章不会更广泛地“我/本土化”哈罗德或早期英国人，而是将早期中世纪定居者的作品开放给当代本土学者的目光，并为早期中世纪提供一种暂时的主权理论方法叙述。