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Cherie Dimaline (Métis) has said in interviews that she prefers to identify as an Indigenous author, as opposed to a Canadian one:“Because we are the people of story, it is a great honor for me to be called a Métis writer. It denotes a title, an honor, and a certain knowledge. In fact, I feel demoted when I’m referred to as only a Canadian writer. My community has struggled and survived, and I’m enormously proud to be able to carry our voices forward.”  \ni. In what ways do you think an author identifying with a specific culture empowers that author? Think both about how they see themselves and how the rest of the world sees them.  \nii. In what ways do you think an author identifying with a specific culture disempowers or limits that author? Think both about how they see themselves and how the rest of the world sees them.  \niii. If you were to become an author (or any other kind of artist), is there a particular culture or group to which you belong that you would feel honored to represent? Would you want to identify yourself as writing specifically from that culture or group? Explain  \nyour answer.  \nWWW.WORLDSSMALLESTBOOKCLUB.COM 1  \n2. Dimaline wrote The Marrow Thieves with an Indigenous audience in mind, but also with the intention that the book would be accessible to nonIndigenous readers. She also wrote the book as a Canadian, stating,“I think it’s so strange [that] people in the United States are thinking about this book. It’s so Canadian to me and it’s so Indigenous.”  \ni. Did anything about the book seem particularly Indigenous or Canadian to you? Explain your answer.  \nii. What strategies do you think Dimaline used in order to make the book accessible to non-Indigenous readers? Use examples from the book to support your answer.  \niii. What do you think are the challenges and the rewards of reading a book from a culture different from your own?  \niv. What about The Marrow Thieves do you think might allow readers to connect with the book, regardless of their own cultural background? What do you think is universal about the story?  \n3. Speculative fiction is a large category of books that includes science fiction, fantasy, and any other story that takes place in a world different from our world in some way.  \ni. How would you define both science fiction and fantasy? What would you say are the main differences between science fiction and fantasy as genres?  \nii. Do you think The Marrow Thieves is science fiction or do you think it’s fantasy? Alternatively, do you think we should just call it speculative fiction? Explain your answer.  \nWWW.WORLDSSMALLESTBOOKCLUB.COM 2  \n4. In her speech at BookExpo America in 2004, speculative fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin said:  \nImmature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good.…To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence—as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world   In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives.  \ni. Do you think that The Marrow Thieves is the kind of complex“imaginative literature” that Le Guin describes here? Or does it simplify the world into two clear categories of good and evil? Explain your answer using examples from the text.  \nii. Can you think of any examples from your own life or from current events when people simplified a complex situation into just “good vs. evil” with no middle ground?  \niii. Drawing on those examples, why do you think it might be harmful for people to have the “moral certainty” that Le Guin describes?  \nWWW.WORLDSSMALLESTBOOKCLUB.COM 3  \n5. 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