Re-storying trauma through decolonial care in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie.

López-Serrano, Lucía

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Re-storying trauma through decolonial care in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie.

dc.contributor.author	López-Serrano, Lucía
dc.contributor.department	Sin departamento asociado	es
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-25T09:53:50Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-25T09:53:50Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie (2015) tells the story of Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman with a troubled past, who undertakes a healing dream journey in which she revisits experiences of abandonment and abuse rooted in intergenerational trauma caused by colonialism. In this paper, I suggest that Lindberg’s text reclaims care as a decolonial praxis that generates Indigenous resurgence. Situating care ethics within decolonial and Indigenous relational frameworks, I posit that the forms of care represented in the novel enact re-embodiment, reconfigure kinscapes, and tether personal healing to collective well-being and ecological responsibility. Drawing on Eva Jewell, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Glen Sean Coulthard, the article shows how Birdie aligns care with the regeneration of traditional knowledge and the refusal of heteropatriarchal-capitalist logics. Ultimately, Birdie models resilience as an adaptive, land-based capacity sustained through ceremony and reciprocity, demonstrating that decolonial care foregrounds Indigenous resurgence.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	López-Serrano, L. (2025). Re-storying trauma through decolonial care in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie. International Journal of English Studies, 25(2), 93–106. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.664231
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.664231
dc.identifier.eissn	1989-6131 (Internet)
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/213081
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	This article has been produced within the framework of the research project “Narrating Resilience, Achieving Happiness? Toward a Cultural Narratology” (PID2020-113190GB-C22).
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dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
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dc.subject	Colonial trauma	en
dc.subject	Ethics of care	en
dc.subject	Gender	en
dc.subject	Healing	en
dc.subject	Indigenous literature	en
dc.subject	Indigenous resurgence	en
dc.subject	Resilience	en
dc.subject	Tracey Lindberg	en
dc.subject	Birdie	en
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Re-storying trauma through decolonial care in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie.	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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