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Natural Violence, Unnatural Bodies: Negotiating the Boundaries of the Human in MMIWG Narratives
Interventions ( IF 0.477 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 , DOI: 10.1080/1369801x.2020.1816848
Rebecca Macklin 1
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Released in 2019, the final report on the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) terms the high rates of murder and disappearance an ongoing genocide. The connected forms of violence that Native American women in the United States experience, however, remain largely unacknowledged. This essay considers how two contemporary cultural narratives attempt to render violence against Native American women speakable, through a focus on the film Wind River (2017) directed by Taylor Sheridan and the novel The Round House (2012) by Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich. By analyzing these texts, this essay examines how cultural narratives mediate the boundaries of human life, emphasizing the extent to which such borders are framed by racial and gendered experience. Placing Mel Y. Chen’s understanding of animacy hierarchies into dialogue with Judith Butler’s work on ungrievability, I argue that animalistic associations can alternately work to reproduce or disrupt normative conceptualizations of the human. I contrast the dehumanizing rhetoric that is produced in Wind River with The Round House, which I argue disrupts the boundaries between human and nonhuman through the recovery of Ojibwe ontologies. Through this comparison, I locate the pervasiveness of a discourse that de-animates Indigenous women in the public sphere, as well as consider the potential for cultural narratives to disrupt this violent logic.



中文翻译:

自然暴力,不自然的身体:在 MMIWG 叙事中协商人类的界限

2019 年发布的加拿大全国失踪和被谋杀土著妇女和女孩调查 (MMIWG) 的最终报告将高谋杀率和失踪率称为持续的种族灭绝。然而,美国原住民妇女所经历的相关暴力形式在很大程度上仍未得到承认。本文通过关注泰勒·谢里丹 (Taylor Sheridan) 执导的电影《风河》 (2017) 和奥吉布韦 (Ojibwe) 作家路易丝·厄德里奇 (Louise Erdrich) 的小说《圆屋》(The Round House) (2012),探讨了两种当代文化叙事如何试图使针对美洲土著妇女的暴力行为变得可言。通过分析这些文本,本文考察了文化叙事如何调节人类生活的边界,强调这些边界在多大程度上被种族和性别经验所框定。放置 Mel Y。陈对动画等级的理解与朱迪思·巴特勒关于不可悲哀的工作的对话,我认为动物联想可以交替地复制或破坏人类的规范概念化。我将风河中产生的非人性修辞与圆屋进行了对比,我认为圆屋通过恢复 Ojibwe 本体打破了人类与非人类之间的界限。通过这种比较,我找到了在公共领域使土著妇女失去活力的话语的普遍性,并考虑了文化叙事破坏这种暴力逻辑的潜力。我将风河中产生的非人性修辞与圆屋进行了对比,我认为它通过 Ojibwe 本体的恢复破坏了人类与非人类之间的界限。通过这种比较,我找到了在公共领域使土著妇女失去活力的话语的普遍性,并考虑了文化叙事破坏这种暴力逻辑的潜力。我将风河中产生的非人性修辞与圆屋进行了对比,我认为它通过 Ojibwe 本体的恢复破坏了人类与非人类之间的界限。通过这种比较,我找到了在公共领域使土著妇女失去活力的话语的普遍性,并考虑了文化叙事破坏这种暴力逻辑的潜力。

更新日期:2020-10-14
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