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Gabby Cicio edited the blog post Back at Home with Butler in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
The second I arrived back at home and my mom begins to ask me about my courses. I knew it would be relatively easy to explain all of them, all of them except my Octavia Butler course. I wasn’t quite sure where to start with this one. Do I just explain the books that the class has read? Do I try and guide her through all the themes we have d…[Read more]
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Gabby Cicio edited the blog post Finally Coming to Terms with My Vampire-Fandom in Butler’s Fiction in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Funny enough, after reading Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood Trilogy, I became disappointed in myself. My reading of Butler’s “Fledgling” is different from any of the other texts we have read in class. I really don’t want to say it’s because of the vampires, but I think it is… Vampire culture has been heavily discussed in class and through blog…[Read more]
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Gabby Cicio edited the blog post Thinking Out Loud: Questions for Clay’s Ark and Genetics in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
While reading Octavia Butler’s “Clay’s Ark,” I couldn’t help but think of how Butler hints at some type of genetic engineering in her text. My mind was constantly going back in forth between Keira’s cancer, acute myeloblastic leukemia (460), and the epidemic that Eli brought down to Earth (480). It appears that this epidemic heightens the sense…[Read more]
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Gabby Cicio edited the blog post Going Back to the Beginning: Stigmergy in Bloodchild in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
To steer stigmergy away from Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood trilogy, I attempted to find a connection to stigmergy through Butler’s Bloodchild. As I was hunting for possible connections, I found a helpful hint in Heather Marsh’s article, “Governance by User Groups”. Marsh states: “In environmentally sensitive areas such as the Arctic, the few w…[Read more]
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Gabby Cicio edited the blog post A Critique of Lilith’s Parenting in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
What is striking to me is a conversation between Lilith and Jodahs in Butler’s Imago. After reading Linda’s post, I came to the realization that Butler strategically placed an incident where the reader sees Lilith’s own humanity through the parental lens. In the second chapter, “Exile,” it is evident that Jodahs has come to accept himself a…[Read more]
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Gabby Cicio joined the group American Studies 6 years, 7 months ago
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Gabby Cicio became a registered member 6 years, 7 months ago