In a dystopian era, what contributed to Lauren’s flourishing and healing in the face of such adversity? What happens to Lauren, positive or negative, when people try to build their own community out in the real world?

Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Grand Central Publishing. 

Eagleton, Terry. “Literary Theory: An Introduction Second Edition.” Literary Theory: An 

Introduction , 2nd ed. 

Foucault, Michel. Chapter 4 Discipline and Punishment. 

Harvey, David. “A Brief History of Neoliberalism.” Freedom’s Just Another Word. Oxford. 

Still working on sources.

1. Effe, Alexandra. “Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and the “Utopian Glimmer of [Auto]fiction”.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 67 no. 4, 2021, p. 738-757. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/mfs.2021.0039.
2.  Gilroy, Marty. “Reading the Global City: Crisis, Cognitive Mapping and the ‘Urban Sensorium’ in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island and Ben Lerner’s 10:04.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 24, no. 1, Mar. 2022, p. NA. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A723635908/AONE?u=cuny_hunter&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=27c19223. Accessed 21 Nov. 2022.
3. Leonid Bilmes (2020) ‘an actual present alive with multiple futures’: narrative, memory and time in Ben Lerner’s 10:04, Textual Practice, 34:7, 1081-1102, DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1515789
4. Segnit, Nat. “Same-same, but different: Ben Lerner’s triumphant flickering between fictional and non-fictional modes.” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 5814, 5 Sept. 2014, p. 19. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A683229041/AONE?u=cuny_hunter&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=6ab1ff6b. Accessed 21 Nov. 2022.
5. Vermeulen, Pieter. “How Should a Person Be (Transpersonal)? Ben Lerner, Roberto Esposito, and the Biopolitics of the Future.” Political Theory, vol. 45, no. 5, 2017, pp. 659–81. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44509445. Accessed 21 Nov. 2022.

In order to find the sources and complimentary voices as well as opposing ones, I first started using what I was comfortable with. Google Scholar was my first step and I started by simply searching for the title of the book in the search engine. I had not come up with multiple results and so changed search engines as well as what I had searched up. Next I used JSTOR, as well as ONESEARCH, the Hunter Library. Merely searching up the title of the book led to a large number of results, tons of which were not relevant to my research question. I then began to search up the title of the novel along with key phrases to narrow down the results which had overall led me to some articles that I could use. 

1-McCormack, M. B., & Bibliography Algarin. , “Your god is a racist, sexist, homophobic, and a misogynist our god is change”: Ishmael Reed, Octavia Butler and Afrofuturist critiques of (black) American religion, Black Theology, Taylor & Francis, 2016, Pages 6-27

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14769948.2015.1131503 

2-Tweedy Clarence, The Anointed: Countering Dystopia with Faith in Octavia Butler’s  Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present), 2014, Volume 13, Issue 1

https://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2014/tweedy.htm

3-Kouhestani Maryam, 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, 2015, Vol. 5, No. 10

https://asset-pdf.scinapse.io/prod/2048487019/2048487019.pdf

4-Melzer, Patricia. All that You Touch You Change: Utopian Desire and the Concept of

Change in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, FemSpec, ProQuest, 2002, Vol 3 No 3

https://www.proquest.com/docview/200082635?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true

5-Mercedes Alayna, Octavia E Butler’s Earth Seed and God of Change, Bridgewater State University, 2022

https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1563&context=honors_proj

6-Govan Sandra, Parable of the Sower as rendered by Octavia Butler: Lessons for our changing times, FemSpec, ProQuest, 2003, Vol 4, No 2, pp239, 

https://www.proquest.com/docview/200166258?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true

     While doing the research part of the final project, I was focused on finding articles that spoke about religion within the novel Parable of the Sower. My original question seemed too vague, so it made my process of finding articles a bit longer. I used keywords such as “religion” and “God” but the results were less than stellar for my essay. I consulted google scholar and Jstor, until I found some articles that went with my question. The more I read, the more I solidified my research question, making it more specific compared to before. I then started looking for articles that also related to the second topic of my question, in this case being black theology and feminism. I want to explore how they affect the religion of “Earth Seed” within the novel and what it tries to present to us in the novel.

Simple bibliography: 

1. Anand, Divya. “Words on Water: Nature and Agency in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” Words on Water: Nature and Agency in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide , Mar. 2008, http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Water/2.pdf. 
2. DasGupta, Amrita, and Tathagata Dutta. “Directory of Open Access Journals.” HyperCultura, Hyperion University, 1 Aug. 2021, https://doaj.org/article/8c4b5b5c2bc84876979870ca088e9dcf. 
3. Kaur, Gurpreet. “Literary Endeavour (ISSN: 0976-299X).” Amitav Ghosh’s Entwining of Threads from History, Facts and Myths in The Hungry Tide, PublisherSau. Bhagyashri Ramesh Chougule/ Editor-Dr.R.B.Chougule, July 2018, http://jtrel.in/archive/JTREL090305.pdf. 
4. Mohamed, Niveen Samir. “A Spatial Study in Arundhati Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” A Spatial Study in Arundhati Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Apr. 2022, https://ssl.journals.ekb.eg/article_235101_e837730347d1569f8779272d2c727584.pdf. 
5. Umadevi, V. “Www.literaryendeavour.org Literary Endeavour – Researchgate.” INTRICACIES OF MYTH AND CULTURE IN THE HUNGRY TIDE: A STUDY ON ISLAND LITERATURE, July 2018, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shahila_Zafar2/publication/338225016_Manipulation_of_Mechanisms_of_Surveillance_and_Control_A_Critical_Analysis_of_Veronica_Ruth’s_Divergent_Trilogy/links/5e08fb01a6fdcc28374855ac/Manipulation-of-Mechanisms-of-Surveillance-and-Control-A-Critical-Analysis-of-Veronica-Ruths-Divergent-Trilogy.pdf. 

I started my simple bibliography with using Onesearch and filter the page to be only peer reviewed work. I used the phrases “The Hungry Tide”, “The Hungry Tide Folklore”, “The Hungry Tide Myths”. The results were very limited, I got about 2-4 search result and many of which did not connect to my research question. I skim through some briefly that may work and added them. After that I search the same phrases up on Google Scholar and found many on JSTOR but many others have pay walls. I started to change my terminology and try to see if that helped however, it wasn’t improving the results. In the end I decided to go on Google to see what others have written about the folklore in The Hungry Tide to see how I can find the best sources related to my question.

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.

 Huttunen, Thomas. “Language and Ethics in The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh.” Full: In (pp. 121-32) Sankaran, 2012, p. 121–.

  Karce, Tina. “Strategies for Expressing Power Relationships in the Slovenian Translation of Amitav Ghosh’s Novel The Hungry Tide.” Romanian Journal of English Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 2013, pp. 174–80, https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0015.

 Prabhu, Gayathri. “Retelling Nature: Realism and the Postcolonial-Environmental Imaginary in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” Transnational Literature, vol. 7, no. 2, 2015, p. 13–.

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

  Tasnim, Zakiyah. “Transformation of English Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” Advances in Language and Literary Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, 2018, p. 145–, https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.3p.145.

 Yildiz, Firat. “The Back Mutation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide/Amitav Ghosh’un The Hungry Tide Calismasinda Oeze Donues.” Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 31, 2014, pp. 193–193.

For my sources, I wanted to find information that had to do with my research question of: How does Amitav Ghosh’s novel “The Hungry Tide” manipulate written and spoken language to depict human complexities, like emotional values? I went to the Hunter library’s website and searched for certain terms like “language,” “translation,” etc. Some of them I have to go through once more with a refined eye for the relevance of the information relating to the novel itself. Taking in what these sources are saying helps me strengthen my research question and make comparisons.