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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Gregory J. Hampton was Professor of African-American Literature at Howard University, USA. He authored 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 (Lexington 2018), is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature at Georgia Southern University. Klappentext 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 LibraryThe 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. Vorwort Covering the full range of her writing from her short stories to the bestselling novel Kindred , this is the most comprehensive guide available to scholarship on the leading science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Zusammenfassung 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 LibraryThe 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Univer...
