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Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 3 months ago

So I’m not really sure where to start. When the semester began, I had only been familiar with Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” from when we read it last spring in African American Literature, as well as Parable of […]
Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

So I’ve been watching a ton of that newish Netflix series, Marvel’s Daredevil. And given that it’s finals week, I think it’s safe to say that this isn’t the most opportune time to get hooked on a show. Either way, […]
Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 5 months ago

I remember during one of our first class discussions on Dawn, Dr. McCoy admitted that she had always experienced problems in trying to read the “ooloi” species within the novel as neither male nor female but […]
Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 5 months ago

I had meant to post this earlier, but I of course forgot to do so. So although I wasn’t present in class on Friday for the discussion on Bloodchild, from what I’ve gathered from recent posts it seems as though at […]
Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

While I was skimming through some of Octavia Butler’s interviews the other night, I noticed a brief exchange between Butler and her interviewer, Marilyn Mehaffy in this instance, within the interview titled […]
Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

Our group discussion on urbanization and the phenomenon of gentrification has had me thinking about how communities, especially urban communities, are maintained through a series of inclusions and exclusions that […]
Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

I want to return to a part of last week’s discussions where the groups were asked to “judge” the characters of Wild Seed, and then offer “push-backs” on those judgments. From what I took of it, the majority of […]
Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

Something caught my eye whilst reading Pramod Nayar’s article on Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling. A few days ago, we had noticed in our group discussion during Friday’s class that we were having […]
Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 7 months ago

Having read and been inspired by Hanna Richman’s previous post on “The Relationship between Naming and Dominance in fledgling,” I want to continue the discussion on the links between (and framing of) naming and […]

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