![]() Our narrator is a double DGD who lives in fear of ‘losing control’. Those who have DGD are discriminated against and inevitably detained in centres where they are subjected to horrific treatments. In this story, the children of those who have taken a cancer cure have developed Duryea-Gode Disease, a genetic disease that results in psychosis, dissociation, and self-mutilation. In ‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night’ Butler looks at genetic diseases. I guess we can see this as an early example of the pregnant male trope. The Tlic have subjugated the humans and I couldn’t really bring myself to believe that the relationship between the Tlic and the humans was powered by love. While according to Bulter this story is not about slavery I couldn’t help but make that connection. At the end of this frankly disturbing story, Butler herself provides us with some insight into her storytelling process. Humans are used as egg hosts for Tlic eggs and our narrator, a human boy named Gan, was chosen to carry the eggs of a female Tlic. In ‘Bloodchild’ we learn of a human colony that lives alongside insect-like aliens called Tlic. Many of her stories revolve around those who have been systematically oppressed and exploited by those in power/control. Within these futuristic narratives, Butler interrogates the fraught relationship between power and justice, exploring encounters between ‘us’ and the ‘Other’. ![]() Many of the stories in this collection feature dystopian settings. Often within Butler’s stories, time and space collapse, past and future coalesce, empowering both those with histories of oppression and those who are systemically discriminated against to transcend their realities. ![]() This reappropriation of the past and the future occurs through a Black cultural lens, and Butler’s stories not only challenges white historical narratives but enable projections of Black futures to address and reexamine a lost or stolen past. Within these stories, Butler is able to simultaneously reclaim the past and to promote visions of possible futures. In these stories, Butler combines different genres-such as speculative fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, horror-presenting her readers with thought-provoking stories that challenge Western influences and beliefs. In Bloodchild and Other Stories Octavia Butler demonstrates how fluid Afrofuturism is.
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