The Unfillable Stomach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4052020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Mckay (0000-0002-2595-4949, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 214-236 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meridians (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15366936-11530770 |
| OpenAlex | W4410084894 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
The effects of settler colonialism on Indigenous communities manifest in psychological issues that are traceable to not one but several historical traumas, including but not limited to those beyond living memory. The "decolonial turn" of trauma theory has tended to accept these assertions in order to underpin scholarly readings of literature by Native American authors. My article close reads Louise Erdrich's 2012 novel The Round House, the narrative of which oscillates around the rape of an Ojibwe woman by a non-Native man. While this topic lends itself to a critical reading using the aforementioned paradigms, the author hypothesizes that the narrative offers a more complicated picture, one that leaves room for trauma of an individual nature alongside the "soul wound" or historical unresolved grief familiar to decolonial trauma theory. Allowing for the presence of both dimensions requires that one make use of decolonial trauma theory while also asking how a gendered dimension to trauma-a raped woman's, in this instance-might require trauma theoreticians to build more flexibility into their modeling. Through close readings of food imagery, color imagery, and mythopoetics, the author teases out these issues while emphasizing the need for critical interventions of the sort previously described
Stomach · Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes · Diverticular Disease and Complications · Medicine · Stoma care and complications · Gastroenterology
Healing the American Indian Soul Wound
From the “F” Word to Indigenous/Feminisms
Grieving Places, Sovereign Places
Trauma and the Memory of Politics
Unclaimed Experience
The Unkillable Mother”
Geotrauma
Literary Activism and Violence against Native North American Women
Conquest
What to do when you’re raped”
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature
Natural Violence, Unnatural Bodies
Historical Trauma Among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
The American Indian Holocaust
Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender
Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism
Louise Erdrich's The Round House , the Wiindigoo, and Star Trek
American Studies without America
Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice
I Just Want to Play
Trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |