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Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel (Chap. 4 "Signifyin(g) Science Fiction: Octavia Butler") » Read Now
by Thelma J. Shinn. 180 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

An exciting study of novels by ten women writers who have combined the traditions of Romance and Realism to offer a more comprehensive view of contemporary life.
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Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic (Chap. 3 "Octavia E. Butler: Parables of Race and Difference") » Read Now
by Elisabeth Anne Leonard. 198 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Unlike many classic works of fiction, literature of the fantastic enjoys mass popularity. Because the fantastic is so much a part of popular culture, fantasy literature can represent or address the racial attitudes of its audience. Representations of race in the fantastic provide a measure of the...
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Unlike many classic works of fiction, literature of the fantastic enjoys mass popularity. Because the fantastic is so much a part of popular culture, fantasy literature can represent or address the racial attitudes of its audience. Representations of race in the fantastic provide a measure of the concern the culture has for racial matters. If a work is racist, whether consciously or not, it may perpetuate racist attitudes unless it is carefully examined. At the same time, literature of the fantastic is able to present possible worlds rather than real ones. It is thus a literature of possibility, in which racial matters may be addressed and exposed, so that readers may become more conscious of the evils of racist attitudes. This volume explores the significance of race and color in the works of a wide range of authors, including Octavia Butler, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, and Robert Silverberg.
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Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia (Chap. 8 "Octavia Butler's Parables") » Read Now
by Tom Moylan. 386 pgs.

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A cultural studies examination of the 20th-century genre of dystopian fiction in the political and scholarly context of the evolution of science fiction studies and utopian studies since the 1960s.
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Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered ("Kindred: Birth of the Other" begins on p. 118) » Read Now
by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. 186 pgs.

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The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history...
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The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study--Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler--explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term.
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Inverting History in Octavia Butler's Postmodern Slave Narrative, in African American Review » Read Now
by Marc Steinberg. 10 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library
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"Would You Really Rather Die Than Bear My Young?": The Construction of Gender, Race, and Species in Octavia E. Butler's Bloodchild, in African American Review » Read Now
by Elyce Rae Helford. 13 pgs.

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Not Enough of the Past: Feminist Revisions of Slavery in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, in MELUS » Read Now
by Angelyn Mitchell. 25 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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"Radio Imagination": Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment, in MELUS » Read Now
by Analouise Keating, Marilyn Mehaffy. 32 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Folk and Urban Communities in African-American Women's Fiction: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, in Studies in American Fiction » Read Now
by Madhu Dubey. 25 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Dawn of a New Lilith: Revisionary Mythmaking in Women's Science Fiction, in NWSA Journal (Includes discussion of Octavia Butler) » Read Now
by Michele Osherow. 16 pgs.

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...Moores "Fruit of Knowledge" and Octavia E. Butlers Dawn we witness a careful revisioning...Starmen . New York: Gnome Press. Butler, Octavia. 1987 . Dawn . New...
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Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (Chap. 8 "Octavia Butler and James Tiptree Do Not Write about Zap Guns: Positioning Feminist Science Fiction within Feminist Fabulation") » Read Now
by Marleen S. Barr. 231 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Feminist Science Fiction , 81 PART II AFTER FEMINIST FABULATION: FEMINIST POSTMODERNISM Chapter 8. Octavia Butler and James Tiptree Do Not Write about Zap Guns: Positioning...