On the edge of being human, when human being is barely bearable, Butler’s science fiction allows her to encounter the persistence of racism, colonialism and patriarchy in a highly technologized world with uncommon intimacy and emotional power.
Our first session in fiction-philosophy
How escapism can help us stay human in intolerable conditions from which we cannot escape.
How escapism reaffirms commitments to humanity, whatever that is!
Readings
Xenogenesis
Human Contradictions in O. Butler
Joy James on Octavia Butler "Captive Maternal Love"