![]() ![]() He also has something that looks like hair.īut as Lilith gets a little closer-not too close-she realizes that the hair and the facial features are actually tentacles, some large, some small. Jdahya has been bred to be as similar to humans as possible, he has a humanoid body, and sensory organs on his face in the general arrangement of eyes, nose, and mouth. This is a transcript from the video series Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature. He is an Oankali, which means gene-trader since these aliens trade genes with each new species they encounter. Lilith, a grief-stricken 26-year-old black woman who has lost her husband and child in the wars that have devastated Earth, meets Jdahya. It’s an uncontrollable fear in open-minded humans as they try to adapt to the aliens who have saved their species. In the Xenogenesis trilogy, xenophobia isn’t just a euphemism for racism. (Image: Katrina Elena/Shutterstock) Xenophobia In an Oankali family, the two babies are closely linked and they’re called pair siblings, and their gender is therefore linked. Would humans survive an apocalypse? What would we be willing to do to survive? Octavia Butler raises these questions through a devastated Earth in which only a small number of humans have been saved-not by their own ingenuity, but by aliens. ![]() By Pamela Bedore, Ph.D., University of Connecticut The series Xenogenesis explores the psychology of survivorship. ![]()
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