Revolutionary Masculinities in Octavia Butler's Earthseed Series
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Engaging with Octavia Butler's iconic texts Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Scott C. Emerson argues that Earthseed, the religion Octavia Butler creates through the literary imagination of protagonist Lauren Olamina, acts as a manifesto for revolutionary masculinities.
Emerson contests that Butler's textual landscape is the convergence of catastrophes that exhibit the extreme results of western societal oppression and its reluctance to address growing racial, colonial, gender, economic, and ableist conditions. Earthseed emerges from the imagination of Lauren as a rejection of and solution to societal chaos. Using Afrofuturism and performativity as theoretical departure points, the author analyzes Earthseed as a masculinity manifesto via six tenets-anti-establishmentism, collectivity, self-reflexivity, intentional action, flexibility, and anti-hegemonic masculinity.
Table of Contents
1. The Wake of Octavia Butler's Legacy
2. Revolutionary Academic Histories
3. Fight the Power: Anti-Establishment is the Beginning
4. Ubuntu–i am because we are: Collectivism
5. The Man in the Mirror: Self-Reflexivity
6. Life is 10% What Happens to you and 90% How You Act: Intentional Action
7. Nkyinkyim–The Dynamism required to Thrive: Flexibility
8. Earthseed as Performative Afrofuturism and Revolutionary Masculinity
9. The Compiled Verses of Earthseed: Books of the Living
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Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781666976526 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Critical Futures: Creative Interventions and Revolutionary Possibilities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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