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Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler - Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires (Paperback)
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Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler - Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires (Paperback)
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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 book
attempts 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. This book
makes the claim that Butler's fiction is crucial for contemporary
and future investigations of identity formation. Discussions of
race, class, and sex are reoccurring topic that are inextricable to
any understanding of body politics and theory. This book is filled
with exciting and insightful discussions that raise questions about
what constitutes humanity in Butler's fiction and in the real
world. Ultimately, the purpose of the text is to add to the
scholarship surrounding Butler and to bring her to the attention of
audiences that might otherwise overlook her work. This book is an
invitation for readers inside and outside of the academy to
discover the fiction of Octavia Butler.
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