Maria A G V Ferreira
Biographic Data
| ID | 10880366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria A G V Ferreira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria A G V |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferreira |
| SIGNATURE | FERREIRA M A G V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Symbiotic Bodies and Evolutionary Tropes in the Work of Octavia Butler
This essay examines the tropes of the parasite, the host, and the symbiont in Octavia Butler’s early novels Mind of My Mind (1977), Clay’s Ark (1984), and Wild Seed (1978). These figures can be seen as directly implicated in and representative of the evolutionary and adaptive strategies operating in Butler’s fiction. The essay engages predominantly with Michel Serres’s analysis of parasitism in its multiple facets as well as Donna Haraway’s inves…
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Symbiotic Bodies and Evolutionary Tropes in the Work of Octavia Butler
This essay examines the tropes of the parasite, the host, and the symbiont in Octavia Butler’s early novels Mind of My Mind (1977), Clay’s Ark (1984), and Wild Seed (1978). These figures can be seen as directly implicated in and representative of the evolutionary and adaptive strategies operating in Butler’s fiction. The essay engages predominantly with Michel Serres’s analysis of parasitism in its multiple facets as well as Donna Haraway’s inves…
Engineering (1 work) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (1 work) · Work (physics) (1 work)