Narrative Agency and Storied Becomings in Cherie Dimaline’s <i>The Marrow Thieves</i>

Set in a future in which North America has succumbed to ecological disaster and the settler-colonial inhabitants have lost the ability to dream, Cherie Dimaline’s novel, The Marrow Thieves , depicts how an ethics of reciprocal care for both humans and more-than-humans offers a means of resistance toward necropolitical colonial narratives of indigeneity. Throughout the novel, Story , dreams, and language are agential, and enact a communal being with such that the characters are able to see themselves not just in the past but also in the present and the future.

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Lagoonscapes
Published
2024-12-06
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https://doi.org/10.30687/lgsp/2785-2709/2024/02/012
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Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
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Narrative Agency and Storied Becomings in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves

Andrea Ruthven
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Lagoonscapes
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
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Narrative Agency and Storied Becomings in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves

Andrea Ruthven
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Abstract

Set in a future in which North America has succumbed to ecological disaster and the settler-colonial inhabitants have lost the ability to dream, Cherie Dimaline’s novel, The Marrow Thieves , depicts how an ethics of reciprocal care for both humans and more-than-humans offers a means of resistance toward necropolitical colonial narratives of indigeneity. Throughout the novel, Story , dreams, and language are agential, and enact a communal being with such that the characters are able to see themselves not just in the past but also in the present and the future.

Lagoonscapes(2)
Fundació Universitat-Empresa de les Illes Balears (ES), Universitat de les Illes Balears (ES)
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Openalex Percentile: Top 5%
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
3.91
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