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Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler
Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires
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2010
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Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond to Butler's fiction. The study asserts that Butler's fiction transforms the way the body is imagined with reference to race and gender. This text examines how Butler's fiction is able to cross several genre boundaries while simultaneously reshaping the genre of science fiction. This book makes the claim that Butler's fiction is crucial for contemporary and future investigations of identity formation. Discussions of race, class, and sex are reoccurring topic that are inextricable to any understanding of body politics and theory. This book is filled with exciting and insightful discussions that raise questions about what constitutes humanity in Butler's fiction and in the real world. Ultimately, the purpose of the text is to add to the scholarship surrounding Butler and to bring her to the attention of audiences that might otherwise overlook her work. This book is an invitation for readers inside and outside of the academy to discover the fiction of Octavia Butler.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3787-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3789-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
158
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Octavia Butlerand Science Fiction No access
Chapter 1. Kindred: History, Revision, and (Re)memory of Bodies No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter 2. Wildseed: The Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions No access Pages 25 - 46
Chapter 3. Patternmaster: Hierarchies of Identity No access Pages 47 - 66
Chapter 4. Discussing Duality and the Chthonic: Octavia Butler, Wole Soyinka, and W.E.B Du Bois No access Pages 67 - 82
Chapter 5. Religious Science Fiction: Butler’s Changing God No access Pages 83 - 98
Chapter 6. Migration of the Hybrid Body No access Pages 99 - 114
Chapter 7. Vampires and Utopia: Reading Racial and Gender Politics in the Fiction of Octavia Butler No access Pages 115 - 128
Afterword: Vast Frontiers No access Pages 129 - 132
On the Phone with Octavia Butler (October 2002) No access Pages 133 - 138
New Frontier Panel Discussion: Butler, Barnes, Due, and Hopkinson No access Pages 135 - 146
