Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work

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Human Contradictions in Octavia Butlers Work continues the critical discussions of Butlers work by offering a variety of theoretical perspectives and approaches to Butlers text. This collection contains original essays that engage Butlers series (Seed to Harvest, Xenogenesis, Parables), her stand-alone novels (Kindred and Fledgling), and her short stories. The essays explore new facets of Butlers work and its relevance to philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, ethnic studies, womens studies, religious studies, American studies, and U.S. history. The volume establishes new ways of reading this seminal figure in African American literature, science fiction, feminism, and popular culture.

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Martin Japtok is Associate Professor of English at Palomar College, USA, and has authored Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction (2005), edited Postcolonial Perspectives on Women Writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S. (2003), and co-edited Authentic Blackness/Real Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture (2011).Jerry Rafiki Jenkins is Professor of English at Palomar College, USA, and is the author of The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction (2019) and co-editor of Authentic Blackness/Real Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture (2011).

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