In this essay I decided to use Octavia E. Butler’s “Wild Seed” to uncover a plausible way for African “Black” Americans to get out from under the oppressive white structured American society. Due to my favored theory of Deconstruction I was able to extract the binary oppositions that plagues heavily within the African American community: black masculinity and femininity and patriarchy versus black womanhood/feminism and by using the novel reveal how it may be plausible for black Americans to find their own self-individualism in order to regrow black communal worth. Even though the novel leaned heavily towards the idea that black men and women should separate to grow the community I learned the novel’s theme binary opposition actually promotes that without each other the community will never have a prosperous future, especially without being able to coexist with other races, specifically the white race in peace.
I am confident in my essay however I wish I could have written it longer to go in more depth about some of the other theories that appear in the novel, especially Queer Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Post-colonialism, and Structuralism. Each of these theories promotes the idea that only as a man can someone, regardless of race prosper in American society.