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Changing Bodies In The Fiction Of Octavia Butler by Gregory Jerome Hampton, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Changing Bodies In The Fiction Of Octavia Butler by Gregory Jerome Hampton, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Changing Bodies In The Fiction Of Octavia Butler by Gregory Jerome Hampton, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Gregory Jerome Hampton

Changing Bodies In The Fiction Of Octavia Butler by Gregory Jerome Hampton, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's 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 Butler's fiction. The study asserts that Butler's fiction transforms the way the body is imagined with reference to race and gender. This text examines how Butler's fiction is able to cross several genre boundaries while simultaneously reshaping the genre of science fiction. This book makes the claim that Butler's 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 Butler's 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. | Changing Bodies In The Fiction Of Octavia Butler by Gregory Jerome Hampton, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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