Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work
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Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work

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Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work

About this book

Human Contradictions in Octavia Butler's Work continues the critical discussions of Butler's work by offering a variety of theoretical perspectives and approaches to Butler's text. This collection contains original essays that engage Butler's series (Seed to Harvest, Xenogenesis, Parables), her stand-alone novels (Kindred and Fledgling), and her short stories. The essays explore new facets of Butler's work and its relevance to philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, ethnic studies, women's studies, religious studies, American studies, and U.S. history. The volume establishes new ways of reading this seminal figure in African American literature, science fiction, feminism, and popular culture.


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Yes, you can access Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work by Martin Japtok, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, Martin Japtok,Jerry Rafiki Jenkins in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literature General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9783030466244
eBook ISBN
9783030466251
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Introduction: Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler’s Work
  4. 2. Contextualizing Escape in the Neo-slave Narratives of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose
  5. 3. The Somatopic Black Female Body within Archipelagic Space and Time in Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed
  6. 4. What Is “Love”? Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild”
  7. 5. “Accept the Risk”: Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and Institutional Power
  8. 6. Beyond Science Fiction: Genre in Kindred and Butler’s Short Stories
  9. 7. Troubling Issues of Consent in Dawn
  10. 8. Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Human in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis
  11. 9. “But All We Really Know That We Have Is the Flesh”: Body-Knowledge, Mulatto Genomics, and Reproductive Futurities in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis
  12. 10. “Learn or Die”: Survivalism and Anarchy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
  13. 11. Survival by Any Means: Race and Gender, Passing and Performance in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
  14. 12. Of Blood and Blackness in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling: On Post-Racial Utopias in Posthumanist Discourse
  15. Back Matter