Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler's complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author's work, including: · Cyborgs and the posthuman · Race and…mehr
Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler's complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author's work, including: · Cyborgs and the posthuman · Race and African American history · Afrofuturism · Gender and sexuality · New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies · New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington Library The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due.
Gregory J. Hampton is Professor of African-American Literature at Howard University, USA. He is the author of Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler (2010) and Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film and Popular Culture (2015). Kendra R. Parker, author of She Bites Back: Black Female Vampires in African American Women's Novels, 1977-2011 (2018), is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature at Georgia Southern University.
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FOREWORD Sandra Y. Govan INTRODUCTION Gregory J. Hampton and Kendra R. Parker PART I: Dawn What Octavia E. Butler Feared Most About Human Nature Steven Barnes Science fiction fantasy and horror author "I want to live forever and breed people!": The Legacy of a Fantasy Heather Thaxter University Centre Doncaster UK Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia E. Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night." Sami Schalk University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Problematizing Consent in the Posthuman Era: Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and "Amnesty" Joe Heidenescher Howard University USA PART II: Adulthood Rites "I'm not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking": Tracing Vampirism in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy Kendra R. Parker Georgia Southern University USA Becoming-Posthuman: The Sexualized Racialized and Naturalized Others of Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood Kitty Dunkley independent scholar Teaching the "Other" of Colonialism: The Mimic (Wo)Men of Xenogenesis Aparajita Nanda University of California Berkeley USA Octavia E. Butler's Discourse on Colonialism and Identity: Dis/eased Identity in "Bloodchild " Dawn and Survivor Gregory J. Hampton Howard University USA PART III: Imago Visualizing Dana and Transhistorical Time Travel on the Covers of Octavia E. Butler's Kindred Christine Montgomery California State University Sacramento USA and Ellen C. Caldwell Mt. San Antonio College USA Apocalypse Afro-Futures & Theories of "the Living" Beyond Human Rights: Octavia E. Butler's Parable Series Chriss Sneed University of Connecticut USA Trauma Technology and the Trickster: Reading Octavia E. Butler's Unfinished Trilogy Ji Hyun Lee Cornell University USA The Pregnant Man Story: Echoes of Octavia E. Butler's Themes of Reproductive Anxiety in Fan Writing Heather Osborne independent scholar A Space for Discomfort: Octavia E. Butler and the Pedagogy of the Taboo Aryn Bartley Lane Community College USA Finding the Superhero in Damian Duffy's and John Jennings's Graphic Novel Adaptation of Octavia Butler's Science-Fiction-Postmodern-Slave-Narrative Kindred Forrest Yerman Howard University USA AFTERWORD Tananarive Due University of California Los Angeles USA
FOREWORD Sandra Y. Govan INTRODUCTION Gregory J. Hampton and Kendra R. Parker PART I: Dawn What Octavia E. Butler Feared Most About Human Nature Steven Barnes Science fiction fantasy and horror author "I want to live forever and breed people!": The Legacy of a Fantasy Heather Thaxter University Centre Doncaster UK Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia E. Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night." Sami Schalk University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Problematizing Consent in the Posthuman Era: Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and "Amnesty" Joe Heidenescher Howard University USA PART II: Adulthood Rites "I'm not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking": Tracing Vampirism in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy Kendra R. Parker Georgia Southern University USA Becoming-Posthuman: The Sexualized Racialized and Naturalized Others of Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood Kitty Dunkley independent scholar Teaching the "Other" of Colonialism: The Mimic (Wo)Men of Xenogenesis Aparajita Nanda University of California Berkeley USA Octavia E. Butler's Discourse on Colonialism and Identity: Dis/eased Identity in "Bloodchild " Dawn and Survivor Gregory J. Hampton Howard University USA PART III: Imago Visualizing Dana and Transhistorical Time Travel on the Covers of Octavia E. Butler's Kindred Christine Montgomery California State University Sacramento USA and Ellen C. Caldwell Mt. San Antonio College USA Apocalypse Afro-Futures & Theories of "the Living" Beyond Human Rights: Octavia E. Butler's Parable Series Chriss Sneed University of Connecticut USA Trauma Technology and the Trickster: Reading Octavia E. Butler's Unfinished Trilogy Ji Hyun Lee Cornell University USA The Pregnant Man Story: Echoes of Octavia E. Butler's Themes of Reproductive Anxiety in Fan Writing Heather Osborne independent scholar A Space for Discomfort: Octavia E. Butler and the Pedagogy of the Taboo Aryn Bartley Lane Community College USA Finding the Superhero in Damian Duffy's and John Jennings's Graphic Novel Adaptation of Octavia Butler's Science-Fiction-Postmodern-Slave-Narrative Kindred Forrest Yerman Howard University USA AFTERWORD Tananarive Due University of California Los Angeles USA
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