Octavia Butler – Between The Purple Passages

Between The Purple Passages

by Ashley Zimunya

‘An Act of Love’: The Representation of Bodily Autonomy and Free Choice in Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’

In the afterword to ‘Bloodchild’, her self-described ‘pregnant man story’, Octavia Butler writes that she wanted to challenge herself to write a story of a man becoming pregnant ‘as an act of love — choosing pregnancy in spite of as well as because of difficult circumstances’. ‘Bloodchild’ imagines a world… Continue reading

Past Essays, Prose and Poetry

Bloodchild, Octavia Butler, Sci-Fi
Views From Sixteen: The Books That Impacted Me The Most Between Sixteen and Eighteen

This is a list of some of the books that have had the biggest impact on my thinking or were earth-shattering for me in some way. Coincidentally, these are all books I read at sixteen or seventeen while studying for my A-Levels (not my A-Level texts themselves) so maybe there’s… Continue reading

Prose and Poetry

bell hooks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Gillian Flynn, Graeme Macrae Burnet, J.R.R Tolkien, Kathryn Stockett, Khaled Hosseini, Maya Angelou, Octavia Butler, Vladimir Nabokov

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If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

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