Voice For Identity In The Novels Of Octavia Butler

Abstract

The African American literary customs connote the conventional heritage of silenced people, stifled, and crushed. The community of blacks which are implanted in belletristic of the writers. It was emerged in 1970s that have recourse to nonfigurative apparatus similarly going forward in time and supernatural proprietorship readdressing the feudalism. In Black Literature, slavery and racism has been the cardinal subject in which black writers dissertate about the sufferings of black people. The illustrious American Science Fiction author named Octavia E. Butler, who has stood out in a genre among all African American women. She was one of the countless feminist writers who did a prodigious job in presenting the struggle of a woman in racial issues, political, and sexual stratum.

The principal stalking in this regard to explore the novels of Butler named Kindred, Wild Seed and Mind of My Mind to talk about the harshness of slavery and anguish done to the women during enslavement whose consequences can be seen in the present society. Butler further laid bare certain predicaments of those sufferings and highly obtrusive example of liberating the suppressed black voices midst the colonial waves of the time. It holds Butler’s visionary perspective on the transient position of the exploited blacks at the hands of the white’s suppression. This paper explores the configuration of slavery, oppression, and sexuality in the novels of Octavia Butler.