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Social Critique, Anthropocentrism, Xenophobia, Racism, Sexism, Miscegenation, Violence
Octavia Butler brings her sensibilities as an African American woman by remembering how her
mother who was a housemaid who faced oppression and discrimination while working for the
whites. He remembers how the African Americans were brutality treated by in the times of slavery
and during the nuclear wars. However, it was unpleasant for Octavia Butler to tell her mother that,
"she will never do what she did," terming it was terrible. Her vision of the aliens differs from the
mainstream since she was wondering how the creatures had all the three sexes, a scenario that was
not common in society (Bonner and Frances). The visit by the humanoid beings terrified her even
though they behaved well in some instances. This made her learn that the nuclear wars left the
earth uninhabitable.
Butler in the novel uses an ethnic-maternity, that is carved out of the space female
subjectivity to create a narrative arc in which her heroines look back into their matrilineage. She
seeks to recreate the freedom narratives that are fund within the masculine narratives which seek
to confirm their identities. However, in his novel, she explains how Americans oppressed blacks
by remembering how her mother who worked for the whites was being discriminated and
oppressed. She comments upon the American slavery by explaining about colonialism and using
the idea of Kindred's American chattels slavery (Jesser and Nancy). The African Americans faced
various brutalities which involve xenophobia and exogenesis who were the gene traders.
