Critical Introduction [excerpt] My manuscript, O Father, is a project that explores the intersectionality of religion, race, and gender in a post-apocalyptic North America, one that thas been transformed into a toxic theocracy. As a piece of speculative fiction, this project utilizes elements of the fatastical, and it shares commonalities with both classic dystopian literature such as 1984 by George Orwell and modern dystopian literature such as ...