Author(s)

Xiaoli Jing ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Xi'an Fanyi University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710105, China

Corresponding Author

Xiaoli Jing

ABSTRACT

As black women writers living in African-American minority areas, Octavia E. Butler's fable series "Seeds of the Earth" trilogy "Fable of the Sower" and "Fable of Talent" framed a series of crises suffered by ethnic minorities in African-American southern areas during the rapid development of American society from the late 1920s to the 1940s. The writer aims to reveal the crisis, face the crisis directly, reflect on the crisis, and call on the human subject to take active actions in order to cope with and resolve the crisis. This paper attempts to interpret the three crisis states faced by African-American minority areas in the "Species of the Earth" trilogy: religious crisis, identity crisis and survival crisis, and to explore the positive actions that need to be taken when facing the crisis.

KEYWORDS

Octavia E. Butler; Seeds of the earth; Crisis narration; science fiction

CITE THIS PAPER

Xiaoli Jing, A Study on the Crisis Narrative of the Fable Series Novel "The Species of the Earth". Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 152-157. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070722.

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