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Changing bodies in the fiction of Octavia Butler : slaves, aliens, and vampires /

"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 read...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hampton, Gregory Jerome, 1968-2019
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Octavia Butler & 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 Butler
  • Vast frontiers.