However, Butler was not interested in being a Black writer, but rather a writer writing stories about all people, as she explained in a 2000 interview with Charlie Rose. Indeed, the California-born author’s published works explore themes related to the African-American experience, such as the afterlives of slavery, racism, segregation, colonialism and eugenics in the US. Butler received her first Hugo Award, she was the first author to write science fiction from her experience as an African-American woman - what she called ‘to write myself in ’ in an interview with The New York Times. Butler’s Parables Seriesįrom EARTHSEED : THE BOOKS OF LIVING (as cited in The Parable of the Talents) On the Destiny of our Species: Reading Octavia E. Butler’s Parables series of novels, published between 19, reflecting on what these stories can teach us about our species, its (un)dying past and its (un)living future. Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa explores the sociological relevance of science fiction author Octavia E.
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