Changing bodies in the fiction of Octavia Butler : slaves, aliens, and vampires / Gregory Jerome Hampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hampton, Gregory Jerome, 1968-2019.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Butler, Octavia E--Criticism and interpretation.

Butler, Octavia E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 157 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler is the first monograph of literary criticism invested in examining the complete body of fiction produced by Octavia Butler. This book interrogates Butler's feminist/postmodern/black woman's science fiction from an interdisciplinary perspective while maintaining its capacity to translate/extrapolate some of the most esoteric theories in modern thought.

"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 bookattempts 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."--EBL Choice.

Contents:

Octavia Butler and science fiction

Kindred : history, revision, and (re)memory of bodies

Wildseed : the paradox of bodily inscriptions

Patternmaster : hierarchies of identity

Discussing duality and the chthonic : Octavia Butler, Wole Soyinka, and W.E.B Du Bois

Religious science fiction : Butler's changing God

Migration of the hybrid body

Vampires and utopia : reading racial and gender politics in the fiction of Octavia Butler

Vast frontiers.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCO, viewed July 27, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-92178-9

9786612921780

0-7391-3789-1

OCLC:

696084216