The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler

Herausgeber: Hampton, Gregory J; Parker, Kendra R

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781350375192
• ISBN-10: 1350375195
• Artikelnr.: 66404846

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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