Genetic Determinism and the Social Construction of Gender in Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood
Lheureux, Camille
Promotor(s) : Romdhani, Rebecca
Date of defense : 26-Aug-2019/6-Sep-2019 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/7608
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Title : | Genetic Determinism and the Social Construction of Gender in Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood |
Translated title : | [fr] Le déterminisme génétique et la construction sociale du genre dans 'Lilith's Brood' d'Octavia E. Butler |
Author : | Lheureux, Camille |
Date of defense : | 26-Aug-2019/6-Sep-2019 |
Advisor(s) : | Romdhani, Rebecca |
Committee's member(s) : | Delrez, Marc
Bada, Valérie |
Language : | English |
Number of pages : | 99 |
Keywords : | [en] Octavia Butler [en] Lilith's Brood [en] Xenogenesis [en] genetic determinism [en] gender [en] social contruction of gender [en] science fiction [en] Afrofuturism [en] sex [en] transgender [en] transgenderism [en] nonbinarism [en] homosexuality [en] manhood [en] womanhood [en] hierarchy [en] African American literature |
Discipline(s) : | Arts & humanities > Literature |
Target public : | Researchers Professionals of domain Student General public Other |
Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
Degree: | Master en langues et lettres modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité didactique |
Faculty: | Master thesis of the Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres |
Abstract
[en] This thesis focuses on sex and gender in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy. It discusses topics such as masculinity and femininity, homosexuality, transgenderism, and nonbinarism by looking at genetic determinism and the social construction of gender in the story.
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