The Bloomsbury handbook to Octavia E. Butler / edited by Gregory J. Hampton and Kendra R. Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hampton, Gregory Jerome, 1968-2019, editor.

Parker, Kendra R., editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund.

Series:

Bloomsbury Handbook

[Bloomsbury Handbook]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Butler, Octavia E--Criticism and interpretation.

Butler, Octavia E.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic , 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1 Dawn

1 What Octavia E. Butler Feared Most about Human Nature p. 11 / Steven Barnes

2 "I want to live forever and breed people!": The Legacy of a Fantasy p. 15 / Heather Thaxter

3 Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia E. Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" p. 35 / Sami Schalk

4 Problematizing Consent in the Posthuman Era: Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and "Amnesty" p. 55 / Joe Heidenescher

Part 2 Adulthood Rites

5 "I'm not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking": Tracing Vampirism in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy p. 73 / Kendra R. Parker

6 Becoming Posthuman: The Sexualized, Racialized, and Naturalized Others of Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood p. 95 / Kitty Dunkley

7 Teaching the "Other" of Colonialism: The Mimic (Wo)Men of Xenogenesis p. 117 / Aparajita Nanda

8 Octavia E. Butler's Discourse on Colonialism and Identity: Dis/eased Identity in "Bloodchild," Dawn, and Survivor p. 133 / Gregory Jerome Hampton

Part 3 Imago

9 Visualizing Dana and Transhistorical Time Travel on the Covers of Octavia E. Butler's Kindred p. 151 / Christine Montgomery and Ellen C. Caldwell

10 Apocalypse, Afrofutures, and Theories of "the Living" beyond Human Rights: Octavia E. Butler's Parable Series p. 181 / Chriss Sneed

11 Trauma, Technology, and the Trickster: Reading Octavia E. Butler's Unfinished Trilogy p. 201 / Ji Hyim Lee

12 The Pregnant Man Story: Echoes of Octavia E. Butler's Themes of Reproductive Anxiety in Fan Writing p. 221 / Heather Osborne

13 A Space for Discomfort: Octavia E. Butler and the Pedagogy of the Taboo p. 239 / Aryn Bartley

14 Finding the Superhero in Damian Duffy's and John Jennings's Graphic Novel Adaptation of Octavia Butler's Science-Fiction-Postmodern-Slave-Narrative, Kindred p. 259 / Forrest Yerman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 03, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund.

ISBN:

9781350079649

1350079642

Publisher Number:

99983711855

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.