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As early as the nineteen nineties, Octavia Butler was imagining a world upended by climate crises. But she also was imagining ways that diverse communities could spontaneously form around liberatory narratives of work, ecological belonging, and mutual aid. This paper explores her famous novel and places it in a larger context of climate fiction criticism.
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Octavia Butler's novels are newly popular, and may offer a wider audience a way to imagine new alternatives to exploitative systems of work and extraction.
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This page is a summary of: Cli-Fi Georgic and Grassroots Mutual Aid in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Western American Literature, January 2021, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/wal.2021.0040.
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