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Inherited Ghosts: Indigenous Horror in 21stC Fiction :ghost: - Coggle…
Inherited Ghosts: Indigenous Horror in 21stC Fiction :ghost:
Moon of the Crusted Snow
dystopia, apocalypse
community, insiders and outsiders
winter, seasons, cold
colonization and its effects, propelling the insider/outsider mentality
importance of tradition, cultural continuity
importance of dreams, prophetic dreams
societal collapse during a crisis
the Wendigo, and GREED (Nanabush)
practical applications of ancestral knowledge
they kill the antagonist at the end
cannibalism
Mongrels
coming of age, bildungsroman
family, community
mixed identity, blood quantum, being a "mongrel"
nomadic, transient upbringing
jail, incarceration
objectification
resource exploitation
isolation
immortal and poor, what do you do with that
humor, making the best of dire circumstances
churches, religious trauma
Deer Woman: an Anthology
loss of innocence
objectification
subjective antagonists
justice and vengence
deer woman as a siren
Indigenous femininity
protection
domestic violence, and violence as justice/vengence
patriarchy
autonomy, reclamation of power within settler colonial structures
medium informing the form itself
Blood Quantum
tribal police
contamination, insiders vs. outsiders
apocalypse, dystopia
isolation from outside world
community collapse
pushback on settler colonialism
Native vs. outsider contamination
taking omens seriously
male protagonist coming of age
residential/boarding school religious trauma
Never Whistle at Night
Collections
academia, the pressures of The Institution
feeling crazy in a crazy situation, gaslighting
Scariest Story Ever
storytelling as a currency
theft of stories, of cultural knowledge
reciprocity
horror of the unknown, a scary ambiguous ending
stories within stories
settler colonial allegory
Navajos Don't Wear Elk Teeth
queerness, Indigenous queer spaces (being invaded)
unbalanced power dynamic
trophy hunting
objectification
ancestral knowledge saving the protagonist in the end
setting, isolated (white-dominant) setting
Introduction
SGJ
Indigenous perspective
inconclusive endings
storytelling, particularly scary stories
perspective, and how we perceive a story
positionality
Spooked: Skinwalker
coming of age stuff
uncanny
family, multigenerational
cautionary tales
power of the voice, of the story itself
patriarchal generational trauma
but also Skinwalkers are just there and walking around
Spooked: Spirits in the Sky
elder knowledge, Choogie professional storyteller
passing down cultural knowledge and stories
interaction between the spirit world and the natural world
influence of the environmental elements, question of if it's tied directly to the land
influence of cultural understandings of the supernatural on the perception of the story
liminality
settler colonial religion
Never Alone
home, community
spirits as guides, helpers, part of the community
Owl Man
land as family
collaboration
journeys, quests
perserverence
female protag
friendship, co-operation, teamwork
ancestral knowledge
cultural rep through vidja games
scrimshaws, graphic depiction
personification of natural events and the land
animals (fox boy)
transformation, renewal, life continuing on
Manslayer, abuse of power, trying to take what you haven't earned, settler colonial metaphor
winter apocalypse landscape
Reservation Dogs
Deer Lady
vigilantism, justice/vengence
cultural continuity, passing on tradition (Big and Cheese)
the origin of myths, spirits, cryptid creatures
copper people, taking omens seriously