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In chapter 4, I contend that the postapocalyptic novels of Cherie Dimaline and Waubgeshig Rice use the deaths of Indigenous characters to critique Native ressentiment, identities produced in reaction to settler colonialism. Dimaline, Rice, and Louise Erdrich additionally reinscribe Lee Edelman’s “The Child” to signify as an Indigenous refusal to die. Chapter 5 focuses on the zombie narratives of Morgan Talty, Stephen Graham Jones, and Jeff Barnaby and how each of these creators engage with the generic legacy of George A. Romero. 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