IIRC, Margaret Atwood has said she writes about things that have already happened. She compiles them into unique combinations and new scenario, yes, but she is intentional about where she gets her inspiration.
(like some theorists argue that she makes room for new ontologies and blahblah but how can she do that if she's just centering whiteness in the future, even with some dystopic nonsense like...right, Oryx and Crake, that's the one the anti-colonial writers have gone after as well as Handmaid's)
I used to have a couple of articles in my 'to read' tabs about colonialism canada-style and Atwood's use of Indigenous stories about the heinous things the government has done to us, in order to project the white-subject into a future where Indigenous people are then erased.
Them white folk fantasize about being in the position of the Black Americans they forced into that position bc they want to so badly to be seen as a victim but deep down when it happens they will be screaming bloody murder
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That is how psychopathic they are