God is change : religious practices and ideologies in the works of Octavia Butler / edited by Aparajita Nanda and Shelby L. Crosby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nanda, Aparajita, editor.

Crosby, Shelby, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Butler, Octavia E--Criticism and interpretation.

Butler, Octavia E.

Religion in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Octavia Butler's fictional worlds show the potential of religion to connect, heal, or liberate. Contributors explore the bases of these potentials in the many religious traditions Butler draws on, the forms they take in her stories, and the work they do to heal trauma and violence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Spiritualities and Religious Constructs

1. Religious Science Fiction: Butler's Changing God / Gregory Hampton

2. Transreligious World Building: Hindu Evocations in Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood / Aparajita Nanda

3. God Is Change, Impermanence Is Buddha Nature: Religious Syncretism in Butler's Earthseed and Dogen's Zen / Christopher Kocela

4. Butler's Invention of Scripture in Light of Hebrew Wisdom Literature / Charlotte Naylor Davis

5. Regarding the Other in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis: Toward a Posthumanist Ethics / Mary M. Grover

6. Parable of the Talents as Genre Criticism and the Holy Spirit of Speculative Fiction / Chuck Robinson

pt. II Trauma and Healing

7. "Only Actions": Ritual and the Embodied Processing of Trauma in Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents / Keegan Osinski

8. Migration, Spirituality, and Restorative Spaces: Shape-Shifting to Heal in Octavia Butler's Wild Seed / Briana Whiteside

9. "We Trade the Essence of Ourselves": West African Spirituality in Xenogenesis's Oankali / Ebony Gibson

10. The Healing and Harmful Effects of Work in Octavia Butler's Short Stories "Crossover," "The Book of Martha," and "Speech Sounds" / Jennifer L. Hayes

11. Shapers of God: Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Womanist Theological Practice / Tarshia L. Stanley

pt. III Black Liberation and Notions of Freedom

12. Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy, Bloodchild, and the Androgynous Third / Alexis Brooks de Vita

13. Erotic Pedagogy in Parable of the Talents: Freedom and Community through Touch / Brianna Thompson

14. Black Women's Prophecy: O. E. Butler's Parables / Phyllis Lynne Burns

15. The Violence of Making America Great Again: Religion, Power, and Vulnerable Bodies in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents / Michael Brandon McCormack

16. Creating New Worlds: Earthseed as a Tool for Black Liberation / Shelby L. Crosby.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: God is change

ISBN:

9781439921111

1439921113

9781439921128

1439921121

OCLC:

1224042097