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![]() As with the current COVID-19 pandemic, pathogens in Parable of the Sower are concentrated in communities suffering from various forms of institutional racism, such as divestment, discriminatory lending practices, and redlining. In the novel’s speculative future, horrific ecological destruction, political unrest, and quotidian violence have led to food scarcity, water shortages, and disease, which, while widespread, predominantly affect communities and characters of color.Īccording to the novel’s African American protagonist, Lauren Oya Olamina, “there’s cholera spreading in southern Mississippi and Louisiana… There are too many poor people-illiterate, jobless, homeless, without decent sanitation or clean water” (Butler 53). Butler‘s Parable of the Sower may not come first to mind. Yet, in her dreams, she is teaching herself to fly.Īmong the many literary works which take place during pandemics, Octavia E. Lauren Oya Olamina grew up behind a massive wall. ![]()
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