The renowned writer would have turned 75 today.
," an apocalyptic novel published in 1993 but set in 21st-century America. I was really intrigued by the prescient nature of the novel. But I wanted to know if she had anything weirder on her backlist.," an award-winning short story that came out in 1984 about aliens and male pregnancy. After reading that story, I was pretty much hooked.
As you can imagine, it's a great deal of collected material — so much, that when I began my fellowship, I was told by the curator who processed the collection that I wouldn't be able to see everything. , an evolutionary theory based on cooperation rather than Darwinian competition. In"Bloodchild," in which humans help insectlike aliens procreate, readers can see Butler plumbing this theory by imagining different ways humans can interact and evolve with other species.
. Scholars of posthumanism think about the limits of what makes us human — or how we define humanity — and if there are couplings with technology that might make us posthuman now or in the future. What interested me about Butler's work is that her writing consistently represents humans who must deal with the edges or ends of humanity. She also places important decisions about humanity in the hands of Black women characters — individuals who have been dehumanized or erased. My book project looks at how Butler imagines these decisive moments and how she sees humanity defined and realized in her novels.
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