칼리 크로우의 『다시 태어난 까마귀』에 나타난 피조물적 주권과 탈식민적 변신의 정치학

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This article examines Caleigh Crow’s There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or, The Born-Again Crow through Indigenous relational ontology. Rather than asking whether violence can be justified, it reframes the issue as a question of sovereignty: who has the authority to define violence and within what ontological framework. Focusing on the crow as a nonhuman agent and Beth’s transformation into a crow, the article argues that the play destabilizes the colonial human/nonhuman binary underpinning Western epistemology. The crow emerges not as a symbolic projection but as an autonomous ethical subject embodying a relational ontology grounded in Indigenous cosmologies. Beth’s shapeshifting signifies not a descent into madness or loss of humanity but an expansion beyond the restrictive category of the human imposed by colonial capitalism. To theorize this process, the article proposes the concept of “creaturely sovereignty,” arguing that Beth’s actions constitute decolonial resistance. Her “righteous violence” is reinterpreted not as deviance but as a disruption of colonial order and a generative act of world-making. By bringing Indigenous epistemologies into dialogue with posthumanist theory, this study offers a new framework for understanding violence, subjectivity, and sovereignty in contemporary Indigenous theatre.

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