86515 20200716101532.0 doi 10.28914/Atlantis-2019-41.2.08 sideral 114470 ART-2019-114470 eng (orcid)0000-0002-8054-095X Martínez Falquina, Silvia Universidad de Zaragoza Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God: Uncertainty, Proleptic Mourning and Relationality in Native Dystopia 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This article examines Louise Erdrich’s latest novel Future Home of the Living God (2017) in the light of the current conversation about the attacks on women’s reproductive rights and the devastating effects of climate change. Erdrich’s speculative novel describes an unspecified future where evolution has reversed itself and human reproduction is under threat, as a response to which a Puritan authoritarian government takes control of women of childbearing age to try to sustain procreation. The article contends that, using the dystopian mode—and more specifically, a theorization of uncertainty as characteristic of the present situation of many people—Erdrich addresses persisting, historical unresolved grief, making current feminist and Native vindications visible. She also continues the challenging of the whitestream idea of progress and the subversion of stereotypes that characterize her oeuvre. Most significantly, the article reads the novel as representative of both Indigenous resurgence and the global transmodern paradigm insofar as it articulates a relational understanding of language and identity as our best hope for the future. The article concludes that Erdrich’s use of the future perfect tense is best interpreted as a ritual of proleptic mourning that connects this novel to Native American literary activism. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-17R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-84258-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-sa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/ 0.25 2019 LINGUISTICS 166 / 186 = 0.892 2019 Q4 T3 0.115 2019 Literature and Literary Theory 2019 Q2 Linguistics and Language 2019 Q3 Cultural Studies 2019 Q3 Language and Linguistics 2019 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 41, 2 (2019), 161-178 Atlantis rev. Asoc. esp. Estud. Anglo-Norteam. ATLANTIS-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES 0210-6124 4196290 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/86515/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 46869 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/86515/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:86515 articulos driver 2020-07-16-09:34:37 ARTICLE