| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 290 pages) : illustrations. |
|
data file rda |
| Series |
[Bloomsbury Handbook] |
|
Bloomsbury handbooks.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 03, 2020). |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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: ʺ Cyborgs and the posthuman ʺ Race and African American history ʺ Afrofuturism ʺ Gender and sexuality ʺ New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies ʺ 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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Butler, Octavia E. -- Criticism and interpretation.
|
|
Butler, Octavia E. (OCoLC)fst00035925
|
|
Butler, Octavia E. 1947-2006.
|
|
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
|
|
Literary studies: from c 1900.
|
|
Science fiction.
|
|
Black & Asian studies.
|
|
Literary Criticism -- American -- African American.
|
|
Literary Criticism -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
|
|
Literary Criticism -- Women Authors.
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
|
| Added Author |
Hampton, Gregory Jerome, 1968-2019, editor.
|
|
Parker, Kendra R., editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version. Bloomsbury handbook to Octavia E. Butler. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic , 2020 1350079634 (OCoLC)1110436959 |
| ISBN |
1350079642 (electronic book) |
|
9781350079649 (electronic book) |
|
1350079650 (electronic book) |
|
9781350079656 (electronic book) |
|
9781350079663 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781350079663. doi |
|
