‘A racist challenge might force us apart’: divergence, reliance and empathy in Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
This article aims to analyze racial issues in the resistance community depicted in Parable of the Sower (1993), by Octavia Butler, named ‘Acorn’. By researching the critical approaches to this novel, I observed that, as much as they admit race as a force that interferes in the relation between offe...
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| Main Author: | Gabriela Bruschini Grecca |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/73535 |
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