Leaching the Native American Hidden Dreams: Historical Oppression in the ‎Necropolitical Dystopia of The Marrow Thieves

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نوع المستند : بحوث علمية محکمة

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Native Americans, as the original inhabitants of the Americas, have endured generations ‎of systematic oppression stemming from European colonization. This historical ‎oppression forms the core of Cherie Dimaline’s dystopian novel The Marrow Thieves ‎‎(2017), written by the Canadian novelist of Métis descent. The novel is set in a near ‎future where climate change and global warming have caused the deaths of millions, ‎leaving the survivors traumatized and dreamless, stripping them of ambition. Only ‎Native Americans retain the ability to dream, a gift passed down through their ‎ancestors’ bone marrow. As a result, Indigenous peoples are hunted by both the ‎American and Canadian governments, who seek to extract and exploit these dreams in ‎an attempt to cure the widespread dreamlessness. This study aims to demonstrate how ‎Dimaline anticipates the continued exploitation of Native Americans, even when there ‎seems to be nothing left to take. To analyze this dystopian society, this employs Achille ‎Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics—the politics of death. By engaging with the ‎histories of Native Americans, dystopian studies, and necropolitics, this article argues ‎that the fear of rising authoritarianism gives rise to a specific genre of fiction, which this ‎paper terms “Necropolitical Dystopia.” This genre portrays future societies where life ‎as we know it ends, as certain races assert their perceived superiority and oppress or ‎annihilate others.‎

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استمارة إلكترونية متاحة 09 March 2025

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