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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler By Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler by Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler by Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)

Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler's complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author's work, including: * Cyborgs and the posthuman * Race and African American history * Afrofuturism * Gender and sexuality * New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies * New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington Library The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler Reviews

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butleris compelling overview of the work of this vital writer. Equally attentive to her contributions to speculative fiction, African American studies, and theoretical work concerns with social justice, the essays collected here attest to Butler's complexity and range. Bookended by two personal reflections from Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due, important authors themselves, it further provides a glimpse of the thoughtful person behind the powerful fiction. The Bloomsbury Handbookoffers new insights into Butler's most discussed fiction, such as her Xenogenesis trilogy and Parablesnovels, and brings needed critical attention to the entire body of her work, including the out-of-print novel Survivor and unpublished material now available in archival papers. An indispensable overview of Butler's status as one of the most important novelists of her era, this Handbookbrings together essays from an impressive range of disciplinary frameworks-literature, neuroscience, biopolitics, disability studies, posthumanist theory, fan studies, postcolonial theory, and visual arts. The volume includes reflections on the challenges and promises of teaching Butler's fiction in undergraduate classrooms and ones that engage how Butler's ideas have become foundational for ongoing work in antiracist activism. This fascinating collection makes clear that Butler speaks both to her own time and to ours. In both Butler's fiction and in the scholarship assembled her, hope shines through even as the works clear-sightedly address the darkness of our world. * Sherryl Vint, Director of the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program, University of California, Riverside, USA *
This volume marks a significant contribution to the scholarship on Octavia E. Butler. The editors have assembled and expertly curated articles on Butler's work, ranging from personal recollections by fellow writers and themes which occupied Butler's thinking, to her theorizing on colonialism, post humanism, and the meanings of consent under conditions of unequal distribution of power. By situating Butler's appeal and significance to new movements for racial and gender equality, new interpretations of Butler's work are brought to light demonstrating Butler's capacity to shed light on the human condition. This volume forms a rich interpretative and interdisciplinary tapestry which will provoke and inspire future research on one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. * Hoda Zaki, Professor of Political Science, Hood College, USA *
The impressively interdisciplinary scope of the collection-which includes the work of scholars of science fiction, fan studies, postcolonial theory, and Black studies, among many other fields-along with its focus on the work of emerging scholars makes this an exciting contribution to the critical conversation surrounding Butler's writing. * Modern Language Review *

About Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)

Gregory J. Hampton is Professor of African-American Literature at Howard University, USA. He is the author of Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler (2010) and Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film and Popular Culture (2015). Kendra R. Parker, author of She Bites Back: Black Female Vampires in African American Women's Novels, 1977-2011 (2018), is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature at Georgia Southern University.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD Sandra Y. Govan INTRODUCTION Gregory J. Hampton and Kendra R. Parker PART I: Dawn What Octavia E. Butler Feared Most About Human Nature Steven Barnes, Science fiction, fantasy and horror author I want to live forever and breed people!: The Legacy of a Fantasy Heather Thaxter, University Centre Doncaster, UK Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia E. Butler's The Evening and the Morning and the Night. Sami Schalk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Problematizing Consent in the Posthuman Era: Octavia E. Butler's Bloodchild and Amnesty Joe Heidenescher, Howard University, USA PART II: Adulthood Rites I'm not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking: Tracing Vampirism in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy Kendra R. Parker, Georgia Southern University, USA Becoming-Posthuman: The Sexualized, Racialized, and Naturalized Others of Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood Kitty Dunkley, independent scholar Teaching the Other of Colonialism: The Mimic (Wo)Men of Xenogenesis Aparajita Nanda, University of California, Berkeley, USA Octavia E. Butler's Discourse on Colonialism and Identity: Dis/eased Identity in Bloodchild, Dawn, and Survivor Gregory J. Hampton, Howard University, USA PART III: Imago Visualizing Dana and Transhistorical Time Travel on the Covers of Octavia E. Butler's Kindred Christine Montgomery, California State University, Sacramento, USA and Ellen C. Caldwell, Mt. San Antonio College, USA Apocalypse, Afro-Futures, & Theories of the Living Beyond Human Rights: Octavia E. Butler's Parable Series Chriss Sneed, University of Connecticut , USA Trauma, Technology, and the Trickster: Reading Octavia E. Butler's Unfinished Trilogy Ji Hyun Lee, Cornell University, USA The Pregnant Man Story: Echoes of Octavia E. Butler's Themes of Reproductive Anxiety in Fan Writing Heather Osborne, independent scholar A Space for Discomfort: Octavia E. Butler and the Pedagogy of the Taboo Aryn Bartley, Lane Community College, USA Finding the Superhero in Damian Duffy's and John Jennings's Graphic Novel Adaptation of Octavia Butler's Science-Fiction-Postmodern-Slave-Narrative, Kindred Forrest Yerman, Howard University, USA AFTERWORD Tananarive Due, University of California Los Angeles, USA

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler by Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)
Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)
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2023-07-27
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