Asignment Details:
Expected to summarize the interpretations and analyses in those sources. Note that the
process of locating sources of critical knowledge on your topic will require you to locate, read, and
assess more than just the final 8-10 sources you write about.
Sources I picked but welcome to find more:
Bibliography
Matthews, Aisha. “Gender, Ontology, and the Power of the Patriarchy: A Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed and Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale.” Women’s Studies 47, no. 6 (August 2018): 637–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2018.1492403.
Van Engen, Dagmar. “Metamorphosis, Transition, and Insect Biology in the Octavia E. Butler Archive.” Women’s Studies 47, no. 7 (October 3, 2018): 733–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2018.1518620.
Blazan, Sladja. “‘Something Beyond Pain’: Race, Gender, and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Gender Forum, no. 82 (January 2022): 34–52. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=qth&AN=158534680&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Alexis Lothian. Old Futures : Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility. NYU Scholarship Online. New York: NYU Press, 2019. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1789424&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Eleanor Drage. The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction : An Experience of the Impossible. Interdisciplinary Research in Gender. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2024. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=3678083&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Lloyd, Vincent. “Post-Racial, Post-Apocalyptic Love: Octavia Butler as Political Theologian.” Political Theology 17, no. 5 (September 2016): 449–64. doi:10.1080/1462317X.2016.1211296.
Research Question:
How does Octavia Butler’s literary works challenge gender norms and explore the intersectionality of race and gender in a dystopian context, while also addressing prevalent notions of Blackness and racism in science fictions
