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Mythic fertility, impurity, and creolization in the works of Octavia E. Butler
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Mythic fertility, impurity, and creolization in the works of Octavia E. Butler
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Mendoza
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Bernabe Sebastian
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1981-
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Michael G.
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Rutgers University
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My dissertation focuses on how Octavia Butler’s work intervenes in dominant conceptions of the human. The dualistic thinking that informs the notion of the human within Western discourse is attached to oppositional dichotomies that the genre of science fiction takes on as a human/nonhuman opposition in alien invasion contagion narratives. I connect Butler’s overturning of binary thinking to the work of Black and women of color feminism. Part of my own intervention in this project is to fully situate Butler’s work within the tradition of black feminist thought. I read her work through a creolizing methodology that brings together themes and discourses that disrupt oppositional binaries. The themes I weave together throughout this project and that I see as Butler herself also interweaving in order to overturn dualistic thinking include those associated with creolization, slavery, incest, black women’s reproductive rights and politics, the retelling of mythical and biblical myths attached to monstrous and damned female archetypes, the altering of the alien with the genre of science fiction, shapeshifting and its reconfiguring of gender, aleatory matter, and the Cartesian mind-body duality.
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Comparative Literature
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Butler, Octavia E. -- Lilith's brood (Trilogy) -- Criticism and interpretation
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Butler, Octavia E. -- Wild seed -- Criticism and interpretation
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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