Take root among the stars? Emancipatory homemaking as critical worldbuilding in Octavia Butler’s Parables. Paper in ‘cultural geographies’

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In this paper, we explore strategies of emancipatory homemaking in Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed novels. We examine homemaking as a strategy, first, of persistence and, second, of adaptability. This allows us to define the home…

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