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A volume on the early writings of the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler that offers an illustrated background of her juvenilia and extraordinary literary career. Professor Yang recounts her own memories of childhood in which she, like Octavia, found sanctuary in the public library.
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Chi-ming Yang is a Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in histories of race, empire, and East-West cultural exchanges. Her book, Performing China: Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England (2011), analyzed the early China-mania that overtook European consumers of literature and luxury goods. Over the past decade, her scholarship has explored the politics and aesthetics of chinoiserie, as well as cross-species encounters in poetry and art. Her recent publications on blackness, abolition, and Atlantic slavery have appeared in Early American Literature, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, British Art Studies, and The Journal of the Walters Art Museum.
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A volume on the early writings of the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler that offers an illustrated background of her juvenilia and extraordinary literary career. Professor Yang recounts her own memories of childhood in which she, like Octavia, found sanctuary in the public library.
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A brilliant intertextual combination of deep archival research, critical theory, art criticism, and occasional, judicious, and quite moving dashes of autobiography. The book presents a wealth of Butler's juvenilia for the very first time and in a completely innovative way. What sets Yang's contribution apart is the compelling and ingenious manner in which she presents this archival material. Sculpted in the form of a set of encyclopedia entries, this is an immersive, beautifully-paced reading experience: an inimitable combination of poetic recitation, meta-archival cataloguing, and a skillfully sequestered narrative element that drives the reading experience forward.
