Abstract
This essay draws on the author’s experiences teaching in the fall of 2020 and serving as associate director of the City University of New York’s Transformative Learning in the Humanities ...initiative to propose and describe an “environmental” or “habitable pedagogy” for the twenty-first century.
This essay interprets novels by Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler as the authors engage with social reproduction theory, a field concerned with the relationship between productive ...labor—"value"-producing work, such as that of the factory—and reproductive labor (or so-called women's work), including housework. Charting the impact of Tillie Olsen's essay "Silences in Literature," the essay argues that subsequent authors of the 1980s and 1990s adapted Olsen's concept of silences to their own purposes. What was originally a mode of interpreting the missing contributions of women to literary history became for later writers an invitation to think about lapses as an aesthetic strategy. In The Handmaid's Tale and Parable of the Sower , Atwood and Butler reimagined Olsen's silences as developing a "trope of inarticulacy," a technique by which narrators insert gaps or occlusions in place of conveying events such as sex, pregnancy, or care work. The essay concludes that such a trope is the means by which these authors repeat the procedure that subordinates women's work to waged labor.
Otávia e Cleópatra entre rivais Belo, Tais
Revista de Arqueología Pública: Revista eletrônica do Laboratòrio de Arqueologia Pública de Unicamp,
2021, Letnik:
16, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
The purpose of this work follows the first suggestions made at the beginning of the studies of women in Antiquity, which is to seek, illuminate and to show that women exist in the past, in addition ...to raising a criticism of androcentrism of past time. In this way, this article will emphasize two women, Octavia and Cleopatra, who suffered different consequences for being in the middle of intrigues of Octavian and Mark Antony, registered through textual and material sources as well as coins exemplified here. The reconciliation between Antony and Octavian was sealed with the marriage of Octavia, Octavian’s sister, to Antony. Cleopatra was characterized as a fatal influence and as an example not to be followed. In this perspective, it is through the problematics about women's current issues that this knowledge is sought in the past.
Le but de ce travail fait suite aux premières suggestions faites au début des études sur les femmes de l'Antiquité, c'est-à-dire chercher, éclairer et faire exister ces femmes du passé, en plus de soulever une critique de l'androcentrisme de l'époque. Ainsi, cet article mettra l'accent sur deux femmes, Octavie et Cléopâtre, qui ont subi des conséquences différentes pour avoir été au milieu des intrigues d'Octave et de Marc Antoine, qui ont été enregistrées à travers des sources textuelles et matérielles, ainsi que des pièces de monnaie illustrées ici. La réconciliation d'Antoine et d'Octave a été scellée par le mariage d'Antoine avec sa sœur, Octavie. Cléopâtre a été caractérisée comme une influence fatale et comme un exemple à ne pas suivre. Dans cette perspective, c'est à travers les enjeux de l'actualité des femmes que ces connaissances sont recherchées dans le passé.
A proposta deste trabalho segue as primeiras sugestões feitas no início dos estudos sobre as mulheres da Antiguidade, ou seja, procurar, iluminar e fazer existir essas mulheres do passado, além de levantar uma crítica ao androcentrismo de tal tempo. Dessa forma, este artigo enfatizará duas mulheres, Otávia e Cleópatra, as quais sofreram diferentes consequências por estarem em meio às intrigas de Otávio e Marco Antônio, que foram registradas através de fontes textuais e materiais, assim como de moedas exemplificadas aqui. A reconciliação de Antônio e Otávio foi selada com o casamento de Antônio com sua irmã, Otávia. Cleópatra foi caracterizada como uma influência fatal e como um exemplo a não ser seguido. Nessa perspectiva, é por meio das problemáticas acerca das questões atuais das mulheres que se busca esse conhecimento no passado.
Octavia Estelle Butler can be considered a visionary writer from many perspectives. The prominent science and speculative fiction writer is known for her afrofuturistic tropes. Her novels reflect ...relevance in today’s scenario in myriad ways. Clay’s Ark (1984) is a part of the Patternist Series. In this novel, Butler envisioned a humanity plagued by an alien microbe from another star named Proxima Centauri. The novel traces the spread of the pandemic caused by the Clay’s Ark microbe resulting in hybrid children who mix human and animal characteristics. Butler chose the trope of the alien microbe in a very different yet believable way. The hybrid children are the next stage of evolution in Butler’s Patternists world. The aim of this paper is to explore the hybrid identities caused by the pandemic in Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark through the lens of biopolitics of difference and to reflect on the metaphorical significance of the same.
En este ensayo contrasto el potencial creativo y político de dos narradoras afrofuturistas: la estadounidense Octavia Butler y la brasileña Lu Ain-Zaila. Aunque escriben en tiempos y geografías ...diferentes, sus ficciones confluyen en la capacidad que adquieren sus personajes femeninas afrodescendientes para corregir el mundo que conocemos. Sugiero que sus feminismos especulativos "panamefricanos" (Lélia Gonzalez) crean alegorías afrofuturistas de "regeneración" (Donna Haraway) en la medida que sus propuestas estéticas surgen de los bordes de la interseccionalidad americana y de una modernidad gestada en las entrañas del "Atlántico negro" (Paul Gilroy). ¿Cómo se figura literariamente la transformación empoderadora de sus personajes afrofuturistas? ¿En qué consisten sus capacidades para regenerar el mundo e imaginar otras formas de relacionamiento? Leo los cuentos "The Book of Martha" (1995) de Octavia Butler y "Criancas vermelhas (2018) de Lu Ain-Zaila para analizar las maneras en que imaginan la transformación de Martha y Minkha, sus respectivas protagonistas, y los poderes que reciben para cambiar el mundo.
Abstract This study addresses the role of religion as a cohesive force and tool for the exercise of care and respons-ability (Donna Haraway) within the context of the climate crisis and the resulting ...social and cultural collapse as represented in Octavia Butlers The Parable of the Sower (1993). The argument states that the novel develops a form of "speculative theology" (Nick Eirhear) that wonders about what religion would be capable of doing if, instead of presenting itself as a solution, it presented as a tool that allows human consciousness to "respons-ibly" connect with a collapsing world and focus on the projection of life cycles through the connections between darkness and seeds (instead of life after death). No obstante, no es hasta hoy que el colapso global y el fin de la humanidad son imaginables dentro de un futuro asombrosamente cercano, pues percibimos que está en riesgo la continuidad de la especie humana, al menos, de la forma en que la hemos entendido hasta ahora. A pesar de que la exploración imaginativa de la ciencia, la conciencia y la tecnología interesan a la ficción especulativa, esta se centra, según D.D. Shade, en la pregunta ¿qué pasaría si? (2), por ejemplo: alteramos la línea del tiempo, nuestros hábitos de consumo no cambian, o viajamos al espacio y en lugar de colonizar nos convertimos en una especie dominada.
This article examines Gisèle Pineau's Fleur de Barbarie (
2007
), Fabienne Kanor's Je ne suis pas un homme qui pleure (
2016
) and Gaël Octavia's La Bonne Histoire de Madeleine Démétrius (
2020
). ...Striking similarities between the texts produce a coherent vision of the contemporary Antillean woman writer as a rounded, independent figure who balances individual, collective, personal and literary elements of her life and adopts a singular approach to the intergenerational dynamics that are so important in Antillean culture. As a woman, she seeks to end painful intergenerational family legacies; as a writer, she detaches herself from the overdetermining, backward-looking and vertical metaphor of the literary family tree (whether patri- or matrilinear), in favor of a more horizontal fellowship of black women writers that creates space both for her and for other writers who might join her.
I began writing about power because I had so little, Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed ...the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction.
