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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 11 months ago
While thinking about reflections about English 458 I pondered about Butler’s identity a lot. Octavia Butler is a black, female, Sci-Fi writer, which all together creates a unique prose within her writing. […]
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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years ago
While reading Butler’s short story Amnesty I kept seeing conflicts with experimenting on the human body and consent. Noah the protagonist of the story is kidnapped and experimented by aliens. Noah discusses the […]
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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years ago
Reading the afterword in Bloodchild made me evaluate all the interpretations that lie within the short story. Butler discusses the three levels of her story which are love, coming of age, and being a pregnant man. […]
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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 1 month ago
As I was reading Madhu Dubey’s “Octavia Butler’s Novels of Enslavement” article I started to think about our own society. The article discusses chattel slavery in comparison to Butler’s plot in her Pattern […]
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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 1 month ago
As we discussed Clay’s Ark in class yesterday I kept thinking about similar plots structures. This led me to look up films about viral outbreaks. Most outbreak films such as Contagion often portray people dying of […]
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Alex Calderon commented on the post, Mine To Protect?, on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
Your notion of categories of property in human interactions is very interesting. While reading your article it reminded of intellectual property. Intellectual property is referred to creations made in one’s head. […]
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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
The ending of Mind of My Mind was epic. Doro is finally killed in a battle with Mary. We assume Doro has the upper hand, but soon we realized that his imminent downfall has come. Not only have Doro’s fears of Mary […]
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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
One of the questions Locke discusses in Second Treatise of Government is “how any one should ever come to have a property in any thing,” which brought my attention to Butler’s notions of property within Fledgling. […]
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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
While I read some of the questions asked in Conversations with Octavia Butler. One question that piqued my interest was on defining Fledging as a genre. The Interviewer asked this to Butler:” I’ve seen Fledgling […]
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Alex Calderon commented on the post, Butler Bites, on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
I definitely agree with your point one could interpret Fledging as a slave narrative. Within Fledging you see of how Shori is slowly rebuilding her life, and finding her memories. This could be seen as Shori […]
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Alex Calderon joined the group Speculative Fiction 9 years, 3 months ago
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