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- Title
Octavia Butler's "God-shaping:" A Fiction Less Strange.
- Authors
DOMENICO, KIM C.
- Abstract
(For that matter, Abraham, Jesus, Mohammed and the Buddha were great "God-shapers" as well) In no way, except in what drives me beyond merely "existing", do I put myself in a category with the exemplary God-shapers. Short of providing a God belief, as fictional Lauren does, like her I was motivated (with help from Orin and others) to found the small non-profit arts space next door to our Cafe in Utica as my expression of God-shaping. Due to her creative giftedness that can imagine an alternative to the horror and the God that would empower people to build it, the fictional Lauren is a woman with a mission. If not communally as in Lauren's Acorn, God-shaping demands voluntary circumscription of liberal boundlessness to a specific place and people, However, though severely bounded, living locally in a small city as I do is also improvisationally free.
- Subjects
BUTLER, Octavia E., 1947-2006; HONESTY; AFRICAN American authors; AFRICAN Americans; LEADERSHIP; SPACE colonies
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article