poeticpacific

thinking about horror genres and indigenous readings again... the home invasion genre is largely the settler's fear of being colonized

what if someone forced themselves into your house and killed your whole family and sat at the dining table grinning while their own family arrived and all you can do is try to resist it even if they try to kick you out or straight up murder you. while they raided your kitchen cabinets and pretended they'd always been there

If i may add on to this, a lot of scifi can also have a indigenous reading. Like the standard alien invasion plot is the white people’s fear of being colonized. A lot of the cases, the aliens are given the same motives as white colonists. They invade earth to enslave its population, genocide its population so they can live here instead, or to steal the resources on earth. This is almost a 1 to 1 of what white colonists did to the places they colonized

genuine question, is there any other reading of those kinds of stories than this?

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