Episode 6: Paula Moya on Octavia Butler

Reading After Trump: Conversations in Literature and Politics

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Paula Moya draws on Octavia Butler's 1993 science fiction novel The Parable of the Sower to articulate how literature allows us to examine the schemas through which we navigate society, and how this process can produce uncanny effects as it anticipates and interacts with its historical context. Read more about this episode at http://web.stanford.edu/dept/english/cgi-bin/readingaftertrump.

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