e-ISSN 2231-8542
ISSN 1511-3701
Mohammadi, A. E. and Leon, C. E.
Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2017
Keywords: "Amnesty", Daphne Hampson, Octavia Butler, post-Biblical feminism, posthumanism
Published on: 29 Mar 2017
This article explores the tension between the humanistic, eugenic concept of identity and that of posthumanism in Octavia Butler's "Amnesty" (2005). Using Daphne Hampson's feminist post-Biblical perspective, the article argues that the story exposes a posthumanist perspective where the existence and subjectivity of human kind is defined based on a mutual, non-hierarchical relation between the human and nonhuman worlds. This article suggests that "Amnesty," reflecting an unothered perspective of life through an unorthodox theological perspective, illustrates the potential for a more humanitarian life on Earth.
ISSN 1511-3701
e-ISSN 2231-8542