ZhengXiao Qu (Maston)
Thesis: Assessing social inequality from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower
Hinton, Anna. "Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 12.4 (2018): 441-457.
Lauren Olamina is portrayed as a mother with a disability in the series, and her experiences demonstrate how ableism is employed in the book to denigrate parenthood. Slavery's "crack mother" image, a modern phenomenon with roots in slavery, is a topic that the article touches on. Lauren rises as an exemplar of a strong black mother figure who gives birth to religion as a result of her complicated embodiment. The researcher used secondary data to provide evidence and the article will be used in as part of literature review.
Gutierrez, Carlos. "Darkness Among the Moon and the Stars: Family Formation Under Poverty in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower." (2021).
It examines how the book affects the characters and how a new connection gives them hope in reaching their dreams, as well as how violence affects the characters. It examines the novel's depiction of poverty as a result of racial and gender inequalities. It looks at how material possessions, such as car, home, pet, and clothes, shape one's sense of self as a citizen and how, when one's financial situation deteriorates, that sense of self is eroded or altered. The researcher analyzes articles and journals in providing evidence. The source will serve as a valid literature for gender inequality as part of social inequality.
Werle, Helen Whitney. "" Orgies of Breeding and Dying": Unmapping the Politics of Death in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower." (2019).
As shown in the novel, some people are destined to die, while others are destined to live. Necro politics is present in both the narrative and in Butler's view, contemporary American society, in the novel, according to my argument. The novel's various spatiality is also examined in this thesis, as are the bodies that are allowed or made to occupy them. Focuses on gated communities and company towns as well as retail malls to argue that the racial aspects that are not usual. Secondary data is used as evidence in the argument. The article will be used in analyzing political inequalities.
Yarish, Jasmine Noelle. "Seeding a Black Feminist Future on the Horizon of a Third Reconstruction: The Abolitionist Politics of Self-Care in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 42.1 (2021): 58-72.
Collection of Black female intellectual visionaries who each contribute to the long project of reconstruction and present concrete methods for abolishing democracy immersed in an awareness of interconnection and sustainability, all ecological, emotional, and political. Literature archive. The research is based on journal analysis in deriving evidence. It will be used in analyzing the role of racism in social inequality.
Moreno, Micah. "Survival by Any Means: Race and Gender, Passing and Performance in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents." Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020: 195-212.
Specifically, Moreno focuses on Butler's representation of race and gender transition in her Parable novels. A pragmatic approach to gender and ethnicity is taken by Moreno in these works, where problems of identification are secondary to those of survival. Both of these works reveal how strict our ideas of race and gender must become in order for mankind to survive, as Moreno demonstrates. As in all of Butler's works, Moreno believes that her pragmatism wins in the Parable books and posits that all forms of passing are either secondary or contribute to the objective of surviving. Document analysis is used in determining valid evidence to support the argument. This will be used in determining impact of social inequality in the society.