ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the decolonial potential of nonanthropocentric ethics in Solar Storms, which follows the tragedy of the Cree and Inuit communities impacted by the construction of several mega dams in the James Bay area in the 1970s. Flooded villages and hunting grounds, death of caribou herds and countless other nonhuman lives, loss of local livelihoods, forced resettlements, and a succession of broken promises—Hogan foregrounds the effects of another colonial project built at the cost of life considered to be ‘less than,’ therefore disposable. The novel focuses almost exclusively on untamed nature. In the state of wildness, survival depends on the ability to satisfy hunger and predation is omnipresent. The human protagonists are either at peace with wildness or re-discovering their membership in the “democracy of species.”
