Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martin Japtok, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins.
• Editors: Japtok, Martin; Jenkins, Jerry Rafiki
• Contents: Introduction Jerry Rafiki Jenkins and Martin Japtok.- The Somatopic Black Female Body within Archipelagic Space and Time in Octavia Butler's Wild Seed Regina Hamilton.- Contextualizing Escape in the Neo-Slave Narratives of Octavia Butler's Kindred and Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose Allison E. Francis.- (Dis)abling Normalcy: Octavia Butler's Critique of Disability in Kindred Hillary Weiss.- Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Human in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Jerry Rafiki Jenkins.- 'But all we really know that we have is the flesh': Body-Knowledge, Mulatto Genomics, and Reproductive Futurities in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis K.A. Vado.- 'Your Body Has Made a Different Choice': Troubling Issues of Consent in Dawn Joshua Yu Burnett.- What Is 'Love'? —Octavia Butler's 'Bloodchild' Martin Japtok.- 'Accept the Risk': Octavia Butler's 'Bloodchild' and Institutional Power Beth A. McCoy.- 'Learn or Die': Survival and Anarchy in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower Stefanie Dunning.- Survival by any Means: Race and Gender, Passing and Performance in Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents Micah Moreno.- Beyond Science Fiction: Genre in Kindred and Butler's Short Stories Heather Duerre Humann.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (252 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Fiction; Feminist theory; African Americans; Fiction -- General; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Social Science -- Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies; Fiction & related items; Literature: history & criticism; Feminism & feminist theory; Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literature, Modern--20th century; Literature, Modern--21st century; America--Literatures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030466251
• Related ISBNs: 9783030466244
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