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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction Novels
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2023
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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in exile from their home communities. During this process, they engage in psychological, physical, political, and social transitions through what Victor Turner and Makhail Bakhtin describe as carnivalesque identities. Using postcolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, and African American theorists, Lin Knutson examines how Butler’s imagined genesis and history carry echoes of American history, slave history, debt slavery, and colonization.
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1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0310-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0311-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
100
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Rites of Passage No access Pages 9 - 18
Patternist No access Pages 19 - 40
Xenogenesis No access Pages 41 - 56
Parables No access Pages 57 - 72
Fledgling1 No access Pages 73 - 90
Bibliography No access Pages 91 - 94
Index No access Pages 95 - 98
About the Author No access Pages 99 - 100
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