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difference recalls the concept of subversive reverse interpellation, enabled by the differential consciousness, which functions optimally in situations of radical coalition. By envisioning and promoting the development of resistant inclusiveness-based communities, Indigenous women dramatists are able to subvert any dominant “hailing” (Althusser 1971: 78), and thereby engage in an aesthetic decolonial movement characterized by reclamation and healing.
Notes 1. For an interesting analysis of the relationship between human belief, action and social order see Eric Carlton’s Ideology and Social Order. 2. Helen Betty Osborne (1952–1971) was born on the Norway House Reserve in Manitoba. She was abducted and brutally murdered near The Pas, Manitoba, on the morning of November 13, 1971. Shortly after, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police concluded that four young white men, Dwayne Archie Johnston, James Robert Paul Houghton, Lee Scott Colgan and Norman Bernard Manger, were involved in her death. It was not until December 1987 that Dwayne Johnston was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. James Houghton was acquitted. Lee Colgan, having received immunity from the prosecution in return for testifying against Houghton and Johnston, went free. Norman Manger was never charged (Amnesty International 2011).
