Changing Bodies in Fiction of

Informationen zum Autor Gregory Jerome Hampton is associate professor of African American literature at Howard University. Klappentext Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler is the first monograph of literary criticism invested in examining the complete body of fiction produced by Octavia Butler. This book interrogates Butler's feminist/postmodern/black woman's science fiction from an interdisciplinary perspective while maintaining its capacity to translate/extrapolate some of the most esoteric theories in modern thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Octavia Butler & Science Fiction Chapter 2 Chapter One: Kindred: History, Revision, and (Re)memory of Bodies Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Wildseed: The Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Patternmaster: Hierarchies of Identity Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Discussing Duality and the Chthonic: Octavia Butler, Wole Soyinka, & W.E.B Du Bois Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Religious Science Fiction: Butler's Changing God Chapter 7 Chapter Six: Migration of the Hybrid Body Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: Vampires and Utopia: Reading Racial and Gender Politics in the Fiction of Butler Chapter 9 After Word: Vast Frontiers Chapter 10 On the Phone with Octavia Butler (October 2002) Chapter 11 New Frontier Panel Discussion: Butler, Barnes, Due, and Hopkinson

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Jerome Hampton, Hampton Gregory Jerome
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780739193037
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9303-7
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, American Literature;Literary Studies