Resumen de Un futuro sin pasado: colonial oppression and centering Abiayala as resistance in "Sleep dealer"
Alex Rivera’s 2009 film Sleep Dealer is a work of near-future dystopian science fiction that gives humanity a glimpse of what unchecked capitalism and colonialism could look like and how it will disproportionately affect Indigenous peoples. Building off of Galeano’s understanding of Latin America as a region of ”open veins”, this article examines how sewler-colonial systems of oppression, extractive capitalism and imperialism are expressed through the suppression of Indigenous subjectivity by processes of mestizaje and hybridization in Sleep Dealer. Furthermore, it proposes that the acts of material resistance in the film against Western and Anglo-centric geopolitical hegemony –planting milpa and using a drone to awack a reservoir dam– exemplify Emil Keme’s conceptualization of Abiayala as a “political project and locus of enunciation” for and by Indigenous peoples as a rejection of an imposed colonial identity.
