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Introduction Introduction
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How Black Characters are Reflected in Scholarship and in Literary Outputs How Black Characters are Reflected in Scholarship and in Literary Outputs
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The Resemblance to Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower The Resemblance to Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
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Gendered Constructs Regarding African American Women Gendered Constructs Regarding African American Women
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Utopias, Dystopias, and Afrofuturism: African American Futures and the Happy Ending Utopias, Dystopias, and Afrofuturism: African American Futures and the Happy Ending
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Knowledge for the Enslaved: Birthdays and Writings Knowledge for the Enslaved: Birthdays and Writings
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Kendra, Stereotypes, and Zombies Kendra, Stereotypes, and Zombies
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Family and Vaccines in the Neo-Slave Narrative Family and Vaccines in the Neo-Slave Narrative
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Kendra and Lauren’s Syndromes Kendra and Lauren’s Syndromes
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Zombies, Characterization, and Narration Zombies, Characterization, and Narration
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Conclusion Conclusion
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3 Afrohorror and the Gendered Narrator: Progression and Regression of the Adolescent Female Activist Character in the Devil’s Wake Series and the Parables Series
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Published:March 2023
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Abstract
Husband and wife team, Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due, paired to write the new series revolving around female and male adolescent protagonists. In the first of this series (Devil’s Wake series), Devil’s Wake (2012), the text alternates narrators, with the female protagonist, Kendra, starting the novel. While Kendra is clearly the primary protagonist and it appears that Barnes and Due’s novel is to resemble Octavia E. Butler’s Parables series, this novel contains stereotyping regarding gender and ethnicity that offers the audience a poor look at twenty-first-century youth. In this chapter, both series are examined (each is comprised of two novels), noting the strength of each novel as a neo-slave narrative, the similarities to one another, and the success of each protagonist as an adolescent activist.
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