AFRI 110 PZ -Octavia E. Butler: Wild Seed

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Octavia E. Butler: Wild Seed to Earthseed: Octavia Estelle Butler invites readers of her fiction to engage in critical questions about social justice issues such as environmental destruction, collective values, hierarchical power relations, sexuality, race and gender, colonization, slavery, home, displacement and immigration, detention and imprisonment, self-reliance, trans-species cooperation, and trans-human hybridity, to name a few. Through this course students read the complete oeuvre of Butler, from her early pulp fiction books to later well-received texts that situate her as a renowned Afrofuturist artist of the latter twentieth century. While closely reading and discussing Butler?s body of work students conduct research on the historical and global-local contexts, aesthetic questions and practices of Afrofuturism, and current import of Butler?s artistic vision

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