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dc.identifier	ECF_article_3417
dc.title	Decolonizing the Anthropocene: ‘Slow Violence’ and Indigenous Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves
dc.contributor.author	Xausa Chiara
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2020/1/decolonizing-the-anthropocene-slow-violence-and-in/
dc.description.abstract	Through a reading of Cherie Dimaline’s 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, a survival story set in a futuristic Canada destroyed by global warming, this article explores the conceptualization and reimagination of the Anthropocene in contemporary postcolonial and Indigenous theory and fiction. Firstly, I will argue that literary representations of climate change can be complicit in producing hegemonic strands of Anthropocene discourse that consider human destructiveness and vulnerability at undifferentiated species level. Secondly, I will suggest that the novel’s apocalypse reveals the processes of colonial violence and dispossession that have culminated in the eruptive event of environmental catastrophe, rather than portraying a story of universal and disembodied human threat that conceals oppression against Indigenous people.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 22 \| Dicembre 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-22
dc.dateAccepted	2020-08-24
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-07-15
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2020/22/022
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Apocalypse
dc.subject	Apocalypse
dc.subject	Cherie Dimaline
dc.subject	Cherie Dimaline
dc.subject	Climate fiction
dc.subject	Climate fiction
dc.subject	Indigenous knowledge
dc.subject	Indigenous knowledge
dc.subject	Slow violence
dc.subject	Slow violence

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Decolonizing the Anthropocene: ‘Slow Violence’ and Indigenous Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves

Chiara Xausa Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italia

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abstract

Through a reading of Cherie Dimaline’s 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, a survival story set in a futuristic Canada destroyed by global warming, this article explores the conceptualization and reimagination of the Anthropocene in contemporary postcolonial and Indigenous theory and fiction. Firstly, I will argue that literary representations of climate change can be complicit in producing hegemonic strands of Anthropocene discourse that consider human destructiveness and vulnerability at undifferentiated species level. Secondly, I will suggest that the novel’s apocalypse reveals the processes of colonial violence and dispossession that have culminated in the eruptive event of environmental catastrophe, rather than portraying a story of universal and disembodied human threat that conceals oppression against Indigenous people.

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22 Dicembre 2020

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24 Agosto 2020

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15 Luglio 2020

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Keywords: Indigenous knowledge • Apocalypse • Cherie Dimaline • Climate fiction • Slow violence

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