“Decolonize your Diet” : Politics of Consumption and Indigenous Veganism in Eden Robinson’s The Trickster Trilogy

KRÁSNÁ, Denisa. “Decolonize your Diet” : Politics of Consumption and Indigenous Veganism in Eden Robinson’s The Trickster Trilogy. ISLE : Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, vol. 31, No 2, p. 312-332. ISSN 1076-0962. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isac041.

Basic information

• Original name: “Decolonize your Diet” : Politics of Consumption and Indigenous Veganism in Eden Robinson’s The Trickster Trilogy
• Authors: KRÁSNÁ, Denisa (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: ISLE : Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 1076-0962.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 0.200 in 2022
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isac041
• UT WoS: 000818651400001
• Keywords in English: Eden Robinson; The Trickster Trilogy; Food Justice; Indigenous Veganism; Decolonization; Food Decolonization; Nonhuman Animals; Critical Animal Studies; Anthropocentrism
• Tags: Canadian literature, Critical Animal Studies, Decolonization, Eden Robinson, Gender Activism, Indigenous literature, Indigenous Veganism, Turtle Island
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

In her latest work The Trickster Trilogy (2017, 2018, 2021), the Haisla/Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson disrupts anthropocentric narratives by discussing the consumption of nonhuman animals. The Trickster Trilogy underscores the role of politics of consumption in the context of settler-colonial society and highlights the importance of food decolonization for both Indigenous peoples and nonhuman animals. Via several Indigenous vegan characters who reject the normative carnist diet, Robinson introduces veganism as a decolonial resistance. In the trilogy "meat"serves as a symbol of patriarchal colonization and by linking violence against Indigenous women and nonhuman animals, The Trickster Trilogy argues for the concurrent liberation of both.

Links

• MUNI/A/1478/2021, interní kód MU: Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies II

Investor: Masaryk University