Saturday, November 29, 2014

Week 12: Diverse Position Science Fiction

   For this week, we read Bloodchild by Octavia Butler. This work challenged the majoritarian culture by tackling gender roles.
    In this short story, the main protagonist is a male who is chosen to carry the more dominant female’s children. He witnesses a male give birth, via a familiar approach to C-section. The use of eggs symbolize long life, eggs are more correlated with females because of our sexual reproduction system. Also, the human species has become dependent on this new species that is introduced in the story, and vice versa.

   In class, we also watched Attack on the Block, which implemented a familiar alien attack storyline but in a new setting, that is not typical in your usual sci-fi narrative: an urban slum. Along with featuring a more diverse cast rater than your typical white cast.

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