Agusti, Clara Escoda. “The Relationship between Community and Subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Extrapolation, vol. 46, no. 3, 2005, pp. 351–359., https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2005.46.3.7.

Grecca, Gabriela Bruschini. “‘A Racist Challenge Might Force Us Apart’: Divergence, Reliance and Empathy in Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler.” Ilha Desterro, vol. 74, no. 1, 2021, pp. 347–362., https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e73535.

Guerrero, Paula Barba. “Post-Apocalyptic Memory Sites: Damaged Space, Nostalgia, and Refuge in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Science-Fiction Studies, vol. 48, no. 1, 2021, p. 29., https://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.48.1.0029.

Hampton, Gregory J. “Migration and Capital of the Body: Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower.’” CLA Journal, vol. 49, no. 1, 2005, pp. 56–73.

Magid, Annette M. Apocalyptic Projections: A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Phillips, Jerry. “The Intuition of the Future: Utopia and Catastrophe in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Novel : a Forum on Fiction, vol. 35, no. 2-3, 2002, pp. 299–311., https://doi.org/10.2307/1346188.

Yarish, Jasmine Noelle. “Seeding a Black Feminist Future on the Horizon of a Third Reconstruction: The Abolitionist Politics of Self-Care in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, vol. 42, no. 1, 2021, pp. 58–72., https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2021.1870089.

My research process has been kind of unconventional. I feel like I may be doing the project in reverse. Though I started with a research topic, I was not able to find much about gender and Butler’s Parable of a Sower. So, I am not sure how successful that research project will be with the slim number of resources. Now I am kind of trying to find whatever I can find that interests me on Butler’s novel, working towards reading the articles, and refining my ideas on the text as I read the ideas of others. I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Right now, I am just kind of “riding the wave” and going with it. I found it most helpful to search author and title in Hunter OneSearch. I was able to find a lot of different articles. Now my job is to synthesize by finding which one’s resonate most with my reading of the text and present a seemingly “quirky” argument.

Shauna Singh Baldwin. “A Disturbing Tale About the Limits of Language: Toronto Edition.” National Post (Toronto), 2005.

Chaudhuri, Supriya. “Translating Loss: Place and Language in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie.” Etudes Anglaises, vol. 62, no. 3, 2009, pp. 266–79, https://doi.org/10.3917/etan.623.0266.

Nayar, Pramod K. “The Postcolonial Uncanny; The Politics of Dispossession in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Hungry Tide.’” College Literature, vol. 37, no. 4, 2010, pp. 88–119. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27917766. Accessed 23 Nov. 2022.

Chaudhuri, Supriya. « Translating loss: place and language in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie », Études anglaises, vol. 62, no. 3, 2009, pp. 266-279.

Cheyne, Ria. “Created Languages in Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, 2008, pp. 386–403. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25475175. Accessed 23 Nov. 2022.

 As I continue my search in creating my paper on “language communication” and its uses both verbally and non verbally, with the novel “The hungry tide” by Amitav Ghosh I came across some interesting articles. I went online to hunter database and searched on Jstor for the name of the novel specifically, as well as general “language” and “linguistics” searches and found a few results that I shall read more on. Also with the suggestion of Professor Allred I will read back on Nayars piece as well. 

Pradittatsanee, Darin. “Conditionality, Non-Self, and Non-Attachment in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: A Buddhist Reading.” Manusya : Journal of Humanities, vol. 2018, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1–26, https://doi.org/10.1163/26659077-02102001.

Found this using Hunter Library Database by searching the book title. 

Kalaiarasan, M., and R. Sowmiyalatha. “Trans-Cultural Communication in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” Language in India, vol. 19, no. 7, 2019, p. 323–.

Found using Hunter Library Database by searching book title and identity

https://www.the-criterion.com/V3/n3/Raja.pdf

Found on Google Scholars by searching the book title

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjay-Zagade/publication/344787388_Issues_of_Identity_in_Amitav_Ghosh’s_The_Hungry_Tide/links/5f906019a6fdccfd7b724a39/Issues-of-Identity-in-Amitav-Ghoshs-The-Hungry-Tide.pdf

Found in Google Scholars by searching the book title

http://www.rjelal.com/5.3.17/199-206%20P.PRADEEP.pdf

As the chapters of 10:04:a novel came to an end I had a sense that the narrator was trying to portray the end of a sinking city. After the storm he made a few notable references to water and ocean animals. My correlation to these hints may be completely bizarre but it felt as though he was referring to the city in the future being totally unsustainable and literally sunken under water. An example of this would be when he says “although the chances of the creature never making landfall remain significant.” He refers to his unborn “future” child as a creature never making it out the womb (water) also he states “There was a small mammal developing within her-“ (326) He does reference specifically octopuses many times and in particular says “or maybe something more sci-if:an author changes into an octopus.”(219)

 The connection he tries to relay to futuristic sci-fi and his interpretation of what generations will look like is also quite evident. Lerner ends the story first with a chapter from Robertos book “To The Future ” where scientist were wrong and we as a population were seemingly sheep for years in believing something that was false only because it was said to be true. I took that as a warning maybe to not believe everything your told, he also had a part where he discussed the government regulating people and watching phones and how the weather could be manipulated (man-made storms) when he was speaking to Calvin. These seem like inconspicuous messages to the reader to ruminate on.

The very last part also dictated a message to future readers, as he describes life in one big pattern, generic and predictable as he talks about the cliche sayings of people he encounters, yet he ends with saying “I am looking back on a totaled city in the second person plural.” Although this was a very strange novel to adjust to, I did enjoy the clever way things fit together as a whole. 

1. Jim Miller, Post-Apocalyptic Hoping: Octavia Butler’s Dystopian/Utopian Vision science Fiction Studies Vol. 25, No. 2 (Jul., 1998), pp. 336-360
   https://www.jstor.org/stable/4240705#metadata_info_tab_contents

2. Maryam Kouhestani, Environmental and Social Crises: New Perspective on Social and Environmental Injustice in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, Vol. 5, No. 10, October 2015 https://asset-pdf.scinapse.io/prod/2048487019/2048487019.pdf

   3. Clara Escoda Agusti,The relationship between community and subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Fall 2005

   https://go-gale-com.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/ps/retrieve.do?

   4. Jerry Phillips, The Intuition of the Future: Utopia and Catastrophe in Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” A Forum on Fiction Vol. 35, No. 2/3, Contemporary African American Fiction and the Politics of Postmodernism (Spring – Summer, 2002), pp. 299-311 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1346188

   5. Gregory J. Hampton, MIGRATION AND CAPITAL OF THE BODY: OCTAVIA BUTLER’S “PARABLE OF THE SOWER” CLA Journal Vol. 49, No. 1 (SEPTEMBER 2005), pp. 56-73 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44325296

   6. Mathias Nilges, “We Need the Stars”: Change, Community, and the Absent Father in Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” and “Parable of the Talents” Vol. 32, No. 4, Middle Eastern & North African Writers (Winter, 2009), pp. 1332-1352 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27743152 

   When I was doing my research I mainly used the Jstor website as my source in finding readings and articles that correlated with my research question, I also used google scholars but some articles I wasn’t able to get full acess to or if not it would take me right back to Jstor. I started off by only searching for the title of the first novel we read and then I narrowed it down to using key words within my research of social inequalitiies and community. I wanted to try to see if I could find some stuff that was about the recent novel Ben Lerner 10:04 but I was honestly having a difficult time when I tried searching, but i will keep an open mind with all the novels and try to continue in searching what I can.