Parable of the Sower | Twenty-First-Century Journeys in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
In the following essay excerpt, Butler places Lauren within “a direct line of descent” of African American heroines and examines her psychological, spiritual, and physical journeys toward freedom.
In the following essay excerpt, Butler places Lauren within “a direct line of descent” of African American heroines and examines her psychological, spiritual, and physical journeys toward freedom.
I am not going to spend my life as some kind of twenty-first-century slave.
So we became the crew of a modern underground railroad. —Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler’s fiction takes the African American journey motif one step further by projecting it quite literally into the future. Eight of her ten published novels are set...
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