Response Paper 3: Wild Seed
Power dynamics is essential in understanding myth as most mythological stories depict power dynamics not only in the stories themselves – in their context, in their characters, and their story cycles – but also in the message being portrayed by the story and even by the background of the author who writes the story.
For example, in Wild Seed, the author Olivia Butler is a female African author and this in itself tells something about power dynamics or the shift thereof. This is as highlighted by Thaler who pointed out that myth-making and science fiction used to be a white genre (Thaler 2) ...
