Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires ISBN-13: 9780739193037

ISBN-13: 9780739193037

Binding: Paperback

Author: Hampton, Gregory Jerome

Details: Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butlers fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond to Butlers fiction. The study asserts that Butlers fiction transforms the way the body is imagined with reference to race and gender. This text examines how Butlers fiction is able to cross several genre boundaries while simultaneously reshaping the genre of science fiction. This book makes the claim that Butlers fiction is crucial for contemporary and future investigations of identity formation. Discussions of race, class, and sex are reoccurring topic that are inextricable to any understanding of body politics and theory. This book is filled with exciting and insightful discussions that raise questions about what constitutes humanity in Butlers fiction and in the real world. Ultimately, the purpose of the text is to add to the scholarship surrounding Butler and to bring her to the attention of audiences that might otherwise overlook her work. This book is an invitation for readers inside and outside of the academy to discover the fiction of Octavia Butler.

Release Date: 18-03-2014

Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English

Part Number: 9780739193037

Number Of Pages: 186