THE RISE OF A NEW LILITH: THE POSTHUMAN MONSTROUS MOTHER OF DEMONS IN OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’S XENOGENESIS (LILITH’S BROOD)
Palabras clave:
Posthumanism; the (Female) Gothic; Afrofuturism; Ecofeminism; (Monstrous) MotherhoodResumen
A menudo, las mujeres escritoras recurren a la ciencia-ficción —y otras formas de lo fantástico— con el fin de recuperar y reclamar antiguas figuras femeninas de mitos fundacionales patriarcales y reproducirlos de una manera diferente. En otras palabras, estas mujeres escritoras deciden cuestionar antiguas sexistas y estereotípicas imágenes femeninas introduciendo acercamientos más humanos y femeninos a los personajes, alejados de los ya familiares y anticuados roles de género.
Esto es precisamente lo que Butler ofrece con su trilogía. Xenogenesis, también conocida como La estirpe de Lilith, es una trilogía afrofuturista y postapocalíptica que fue escrita por Octavia E. Butler a finales de los 80. Como trataremos de demostrar, luego de un holocausto nuclear, centrándose en la continuidad de la raza humana y por medio de la creación de una nueva especie híbrida humana-Oankali engendrada por la protagonista afroamericana Lilith Iyapo, Xenogenesis participa en la adaptación posthumana y el cuestionamiendo del mito de nacimiento patriarcal del Génesis. Para ello, basándonos en teorías góticas, ecofeministas y posthumanas, exploraremos cómo un agente monstruoso posthumano puede ser creado.
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