Shape God: Mystical Atheism and Buddhish Womanist Subjectivity in Octavia Butler’s Parable Series
Topoi April 4, 2026 Jessica Xiaomin Zu
Abstract This study takes seriously Octavia Butler’s Parable series as an unfinished treatise of processual social philosophy. My analysis highlights Butler’s skillful weaving of a wide range of processual traditions, from the mystical atheism in the Chinese classic Daodejing , to the kinship worldview in Africana processual-relational ontologies, to the practice of relational nondomination...