![]() Ultimately, this essay suggests a method for rereading "ethnic studies" literature with a view toward the interventions these texts make in mainstream United States culture. Alexie's writing provides a way of replacing the violent, future-oriented temporality of United States militarism with a "slow" temporality that acknowledges the unfolding consequences of the past. Alexie's collection-like much contemporary literature by Indian writers-unsettles this military logic by revealing how First Nations in North America and peoples around the world live with the consequences of a militarism that continually envisages impending anti-American violence as a means of justifying violence by the state. War planners in the United States have frequently looked to the unrealized, potential holocausts of the future for a justification of violence in the present. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven follows Victor, now living in Spokane, as he takes a middle-of-the-night walk to a 7-11 to buy a creamsicle, reflecting all the while on a long-since-ended relationship with a white woman in Seattle. ![]() ![]() Sherman Alexie's widely taught short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) offers a largely unrecognized critique of the apocalyptic temporalities of United States militarism. ![]()
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