INDIGENOUS HEALING (THROUGH) NARRATIVE IN MONA SUSAN POWER’S A COUNCIL OF DOLLS
INDIGENOUS HEALING (THROUGH) NARRATIVE IN MONA SUSAN POWER’S A COUNCIL OF DOLLS

Summary/Abstract: The latest novel by Mona Susan Power (Dakota), A Council of Dolls (2023), represents Indigeneity as a site of colonially induced and intergenerationally transmitted trauma as it narrates the fictional autobiographies of three women from successive generations of the same family. The article explores how Power writes decoloniality through a transgressional complex, reclaiming (the) Indigenous (and)womanhood as spaces of decentering colonial(ist) logic and praxis. It argues that the transgressive chronology, naming, ways of surviving trauma, and other rule-breaking acts in the novel constitute a multi-layered strategy of unmaking coloniality and constructing healing as a process of resubjectification of dually othered Indigenous women.

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