Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower One Alternative to a Futureless Future
In the following essay, Gant-Britton explores how Butler creates “new patterns for the future” for African Americans in Parable of the Sower.
Ideas [are weapons] and their creators run the world. Christianity is an idea. Islam is an idea. Buddhism and Hinduism are ideas . . . Capitalism and Socialism were ideas before they became reality . . . One’s place in the world is partly due to the ideas that a culture has forced on one, and/or the ideas that a person ‘freely’ accepts and uses. Haki R. Madhubuti, Claiming Earth
Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot...
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