Speculative reworkings of the good life at the end times: care, resilience, and relational futures in Cherie Dimaline and Rebecca Campbell.

Fraile-Marcos, Ana Mª

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Speculative reworkings of the good life at the end times: care, resilience, and relational futures in Cherie Dimaline and Rebecca Campbell.

dc.contributor.author	Fraile-Marcos, Ana Mª
dc.contributor.department	Sin departamento asociado	es
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-25T09:39:51Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-25T09:39:51Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	Taking as a starting point the idea that literature can function as an epistemological medium in its capacity as a testing ground where experiments in the good life can be imagined, aesthetically realized, and critically interrogated, this article turns to speculative fiction as a genre suitable for the exploration of cognitive frameworks that may lead to hopeful futurities amidst the ground-shifting transformations of the Anthropocene, supporting not only the continuity of life, but also the good life. It examines the representation of the ethics of care at the Anthropocene’s tipping point in recent speculative fiction from Turtle Island/Canada, namely, Métis Cherie Dimaline’s young adult novel The marrow thieves (2017) and its sequel, Hunting by stars (2021), and settler Canadian Rebecca Campbell’s short story cycle, Arboreality (2022). It argues that they critique the modernist nature/culture divide underpinning the disasters of the Anthropocene while reworking the notion of the good life from alternative Indigenous and new materialist relational approaches.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Fraile-Marcos, A. M. (2025). Speculative reworkings of the good life at the end times: : Care, resilience, and relational futures in Cherie Dimaline and Rebecca Campbell. International Journal of English Studies, 25(2), 47–64. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.659281
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.659281
dc.identifier.eissn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/213061
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	This research was carried out with support from the project Narrating Resilience, Achieving Happiness? Toward a Cultural Narratology (PID2020-113190GB-C22) https://naresh.usal.es/, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.	en
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dc.subject	The good life	en
dc.subject	Ethics of care	en
dc.subject	Relationality	en
dc.subject	Indigenous cosmologies	en
dc.subject	New Materialism	en
dc.subject	Cherie Dimaline	en
dc.subject	The marrow thieves	en
dc.subject	Hunting by stars	en
dc.subject	Rebecca Campbell	en
dc.subject	Arboreality	en
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Speculative reworkings of the good life at the end times: care, resilience, and relational futures in Cherie Dimaline and Rebecca Campbell.	en
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