Scalability in Indigenous Queer Futurism: Eco-Spiritual Healing in the Young Adult Dystopian Novel The Marrow Thieves

 

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Yazar: Bradley, Monica
Materyal Türü: artículo original
Durum:Versión publicada
Yayın Tarihi:2025
Diğer Bilgiler:This paper applies a queer indigenous reading of the concept of scalability in the novel The Marrow Thieves in consideration of the telling of Story, the oral story-telling tradition of climate change, residential schools, Native American history, and the healing power of dreams in eco-spirituality, as told from the perspective of the queer/Two-Spirit Elder, Miigwan. It unearths some matters of space and time within the novel in the role of Native American residential schools, climate change, indigenous history and eco-spirituality in a scalable queer speculative future by demonstrating the inseparability of time (present/past/future), space (the local/national/global/cosmic) and matter (physical/metaphysical/spiritual) to provide both a warning and hope for the future. The paper argues that the novel scales Indigenous dystopian lived and imagined hauntings without falling into a fatalistic trap that many non-Indigenous anthropogenic speculative climate change novels fall into. Likewise, it posits that the novel, unlike many non-indigenous novels, scales in and out of space, time and matter throughout the narrative without disrupting the frame: hence, as the planet requires, the text itself is adaptable to the scales of the past, present and future anthropocene and the speculative futures they invoke.
Ülke:Portal de Revistas UCR
Kurum:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Dil:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/3194
Online Erişim:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rrlm/article/view/3194
Anahtar Kelime:Native American literature
queer
speculative fiction
climate change
scale
literatura nativa americana
ficción especulativa
cambio climático
escala