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Fore-fronting Race and Law

In this chapter, Zara Rix argues that Ambelin Kwaymullina, an indigenous Australian author, imagines a dystopian Australia as a way to teach readers about Australia’s history of indigeneity. The indigenous futurism Kwaymullina employs allows her to envision a path forward for Australia—one that respects and honors indigenous tradition while also leaning on indigenous notions of law to move the nation toward a more ethical social order. In The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Kwaymullina combines the genres of YA and Indigenous Futurism to address issues of Indigenous land use, ownership, and access to citizenship. Kwaymullina demonstrates the importance of Aboriginal peoples and concepts of nationhood to the contemporary world order, suggesting that a just and ecologically balanced world can come only from reincorporating Indigenous practices into governmental policy. In making these moves, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf becomes a utopian vision in the most politically active sense.