Ontogenesis, Memory, and Evolutionary Time in Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed | ||
| پژوهش ادبیات معاصر جهان | ||
| دوره 31، شماره 2، بهار 1405، صفحه 345-363 اصل مقاله (523.28 K) | ||
| نوع مقاله: مقاله علمی پژوهشی | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22059/jor.2026.413655.2836 | ||
| نویسندگان | ||
| Fatimah Harbi Hamad1؛ Mohammad Hosein Ramezan Kiaee* 2 | ||
| 1Department of English Languages and Literature, Kish Campus, University of Tehran, Kish, Iran | ||
| 2Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran | ||
| چکیده | ||
| This article triangulates a close reading of Butler’s Wild Seed (2020) with trauma theory and posthuman/materialist frameworks in order to show how the novel reconceives memory as an archive that exceeds the individual. What is remembered does not remain private recollection; rather, it circulates through bodies, practices, and reproductive histories, through what is done and what is endured. Memory is not merely content but transmission, and in Butler’s chronopolitics, transmission is never neutral. The article further argues that Butler’s narrative form compresses human timescales into evolutionary duration, producing a chronopolitics in which futurity is neither progressive promise nor abstract “after,” but a contested field of embodied costs. Ecology, reproduction, and kinship are not a thematic background. They operate as political infrastructures. For this reason, Wild Seed continues to trouble and instruct debates in environmental humanities, reproductive justice, and bioethics. It shows how “life” is made governable, even as it insists, without consolation, that ethical futurity must be rebuilt through stewardship, relational accountability, and the right to refuse extraction. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| Wild Seed؛ Memory؛ posthuman؛ chronopolitics؛ futurity | ||
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