Narrative Terrorism

Part 4 discusses contemporary political antagonisms toward alternate cosmological narratives of colonized subjects. The discussion centers on the work of the Palestinian American artist Larissa Sansour, whose work shows that resistance to settler-colonial subjugation is currently criminalized as “narrative terrorism.” This part also continues a discussion opened in part 1 around the work of the Yemeni American Bosnian artist Alia Ali, who engages with Yemeni claims to Mars through ancestral oral narratives. An analysis of the works of both artists foreground the ongoing political suppression of narratives that attempt to move us beyond extractive-military relations to damaged settler-colonial environments.