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Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

One thing that has stood out to me from the start of the Parable series is Lauren’s unquestioned power and authority. I think that one reason Lauren’s relationship with Bankole never made me uncomfortable is that […]
Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

Last week I attended the talk given on the incarceration and criminalization of LGBT communities and there were several parallels I was able to draw between the topics discussed and Lilith’s Brood, which I was in […]
Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 5 months ago

I found Sherryl Vint’s article “Becoming Other: Animals, Kinship, And Butler’s ‘Clay’s Ark'” to be intriguing because I really wasn’t familiar with any of the ideas regarding the species boundary, thus I didn’t […]
Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

In discussing the end of Mind of My Mind last week, my group was led into a conversation in which we contemplated the reasons we believe what we do and how collective beliefs seem to influence society. […]
Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

In class on Wednesday we judged characters in Octavia Butler’s novel, Wild Seed for being immoral, inhumane, coercive, hypocritical, stubborn, self-righteous, and generally exhibiting extremely disturbing […]
Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

One immediate alarm for me in reading Fledgling, was Shori’s loss of memory and Octavia Butler’s constant reiteration of this occurrence, throughout the novel (including on the first and last pages). Some members […]

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