This article explores two recent texts – Stephen Graham Jones’s (Blackfeet) 2021 novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw , and the 2022 Predator prequel Prey – as examples of Native American horror. While different in medium, narrative and style, both texts participate in and disrupt the traditional genre of the slasher and the trope of the final girl. The article concludes that Prey and Chainsaw create distinctive Native American horror aesthetics that unsettle the settler-colonial history of the United States.
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