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As a science fiction writer, Octavia Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. The future she wrote about is now our present moment. She wrote 12 novels and won each of science fiction’s highest honors. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. She is also, increasingly, a writer recognized as one of the most important voices and visionaries of the 20th century, and now the 21st. As a Black woman and a writer, Butler demolished walls that seemed impermeable, writing on themes that seemed uncategorizable. Her ideas and characters continue to resonate with new readers when so many are looking for, if not hope, then a map for a way forward.
Her vision about the climate crisis, political and societal upheaval and the brutality and consequences of power hierarchies seems both sobering and prescient. However, as Butler often noted, being right was never the point. She didn’t want to be right — far from it. She wanted to give us time, and tools, to correct the course.
Lynell George. The Visions of Octavia Butler. Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted).
Text 7A3-I mentions the work of Octavia Butler, an important American writer. Choose the option that correctly presents the literary movement of which Butler is considered a precursor.
Text 7A3-I
As a science fiction writer, Octavia Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. The future she wrote about is now our present moment. She wrote 12 novels and won each of science fiction’s highest honors. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. She is also, increasingly, a writer recognized as one of the most important voices and visionaries of the 20th century, and now the 21st. As a Black woman and a writer, Butler demolished walls that seemed impermeable, writing on themes that seemed uncategorizable. Her ideas and characters continue to resonate with new readers when so many are looking for, if not hope, then a map for a way forward.
Her vision about the climate crisis, political and societal upheaval and the brutality and consequences of power hierarchies seems both sobering and prescient. However, as Butler often noted, being right was never the point. She didn’t want to be right — far from it. She wanted to give us time, and tools, to correct the course.
Lynell George. The Visions of Octavia Butler. Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted).
Text 7A3-I mentions the work of Octavia Butler, an important American writer. Choose the option that correctly presents the literary movement of which Butler is considered a precursor.
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Octavia Butler é considerada precursora do Afrofuturismo.
Octavia Butler, autora negra de ficção científica, abordou raça, gênero, poder e futuros possíveis, sendo uma das principais precursoras do Afrofuturismo. Esse movimento une ficção científica, perspectiva da diáspora africana e especulação sobre o futuro.
Análise das alternativas
A) Colonial Literature: não se relaciona à obra de Butler. B) Gothic Literature: é outro movimento, centrado em horror e mistério. D) Southern Modernism: está associado a autores como Faulkner. E) Surrealism: movimento de vanguarda europeu, sem relação com Butler.
Referência: Texto 7A3-I; Butler, Kindred, Parable of the Sower.
Resolução comentada do VaiConcursos.