Feminine Maintainability in Octavia E. Butler’s WildSeed: Anyanwu as Bioregional Healer
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Feminine Maintainability in Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed: Anyanwu as a Bioregional Healer This paper is the result of an attempt to approach Octavia E. Butler(1947-2006)’s Wild Seed (1980) from an ecofeminist perspective. Some critics have already commented on the different attributes of the novel’s two major figures: Anyanwu and Doro. Yet Anyanwu’s life as a bioregional healer has not received much critical attention. Anyanwu serves her local people as a bioregional healer by collecting and providing locally grown medicinal herbs. Such characteristics of the female protagonist are clearly contrasted by the male protagonist Doro’s masculine behavior. While Doro does not hesitate to kill his people based on their usefulness, Anyanwu heals her people; while Doro tries to manipulate his people’s organs and other body parts genetically, Anyanwu respects her people as they are; while Doro roams around the world, Anyanwu maintains her sense of place. These differences serve as significant signifiers in looking at the novel from a feminist, and quite plausibly ecofeminist, point of view, although the contrast between the two protagonists rather diminishes as they seem to find the ideal middle ground for cooperation and coexistence toward the end of the novel.
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