The decolonizing potential of horror: A new final girl

This article explores two recent texts – Stephen Graham Jones’s (Blackfeet) 2021 novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw , and the 2022 Predator prequel Prey – as examples of Native American horror. While different in medium, narrative and style, both texts participate in and disrupt the traditional genre of the slasher and the trope of the final girl. The article concludes that Prey and Chainsaw create distinctive Native American horror aesthetics that unsettle the settler-colonial history of the United States.

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Horror Studies
Published
2024-08-29
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https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00088_1
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African studies and sociopolitical issues
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The decolonizing potential of horror: A new final girl

Cassandra Krauss
Horror Studies
African studies and sociopolitical issues
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The decolonizing potential of horror: A new final girl

Cassandra Krauss
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Abstract

This article explores two recent texts – Stephen Graham Jones’s (Blackfeet) 2021 novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw , and the 2022 Predator prequel Prey – as examples of Native American horror. While different in medium, narrative and style, both texts participate in and disrupt the traditional genre of the slasher and the trope of the final girl. The article concludes that Prey and Chainsaw create distinctive Native American horror aesthetics that unsettle the settler-colonial history of the United States.

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