LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Supplying them with narcotic eggs.
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Letting them choose their own mates.
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Freeing the males after they are hosts.
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Paying them very well.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In various interviews and her afterword to “Bloodchild, ” Butler explains the motivations behind the story’s creation. She wrote “Bloodchild” to explore her fear of parasitic insects invading her body, specifically the botfly.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Bloodchild” is a science fiction story where humans, living on an alien planet, are trafficked and used as breeders to carry Tlic babies. The Tlic mother implants her eggs into a host animal (or human), and they later hatch inside the host’s body, which is cut open to retrieve the offspring.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although Octavia E. Butler refutes the interpretation of slavery being the allegorical focus of Bloodchild, the work largely engages with issues of race and social power, resulting in many readers to interpret the work as being about slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -As Butler noted, “Bloodchild” is a love story, a coming-of-age tale, and what-if scenario about a man becoming pregnant with a weird, alien, bug-creature. In the afterward, Butler states she wanted to explore a scenario where a man could become pregnant not by accident or out of curiosity, but by love.