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Arianna Gremigni. "Octavia Butler, a Survey." Science Fiction Studies 38, no. 3 (2011): 542. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.38.3.0542.

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Hostetler, Margaret. "The Value of Impoliteness in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 5 (September 30, 2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.5p.61.

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Despite extensive critical discourse on themes of power, conflict, and language in Octavia Butler’s work, the impact of linguistic impoliteness on these themes has not been previously explored. This paper analyzes Butler’s use of linguistic (im)politeness in her Xenogenesis trilogy finding that Butler undermines polite forms of communication thereby foregrounding power asymmetry between characters. Although dystopic literature creates an expectation of impoliteness and conflict, Butler relies on a normative framework of ordinary conversational politeness to heighten impoliteness effects so that they remain salient to readers. The spokesperson for this privileged view of confrontational verbal interaction is her main female character, Lilith Iyapo, whose focalized interactions allow Butler to connect impoliteness with key themes of the trilogy—truth telling and an authentic human identity.

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Pickens, Therí A. "Octavia Butler and the Aesthetics of the Novel." Hypatia 30, no. 1 (2015): 167–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12129.

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Octavia Butler depicts a character with physical or mental disability in each of her works. Yet scholars hesitate to discuss her work in terms that emphasize the intersection with disability. Two salient questions arise: How might it change Butler scholarship if we situated intersectional embodied experience as a central locus for understanding her work? Once we privilege such intersectionality, how might this transform our understanding of the aesthetics of the novel? In this paper, I reorient the criticism of Butler's work such that disability becomes one of the social categories under consideration. I read two prominent analyses of Butler's work because their interpretations—black feminist in orientation—centralize black female identity as a category of analysis. I contend these analyses grapple with ideas that can only be fully understood with disability as an integral portion of the discussion. Since categories of analysis like race, disability, and gender require and create cultural tropes and challenge accepted forms, I outline three components of Butler's aesthetic: open‐ended conclusions that frustrate the narrative cohesion associated with the novel form, intricate depictions of power that potentially alienate the able‐bodied reader, and contained literary chaos that upends the idea of ontological fixity.

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Mann, Justin Louis. "Pessimistic futurism: Survival and reproduction in Octavia Butler’s Dawn." Feminist Theory 19, no. 1 (December 6, 2017): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117742874.

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This article examines the critical work of Octavia Butler’s speculative fiction novel Dawn, which follows Lilith Ayapo, a black American woman who is rescued by an alien species after a nuclear war destroys nearly all life on Earth. Lilith awakens 250 years later and learns that the aliens have tasked her with reviving other humans and repopulating the planet. In reframing Reagan-era debates about security and survival, Butler captured the spirit of ‘pessimistic futurism’, a unique way of thinking and writing black female sexuality, reproduction and survival. Suturing concepts central to both Afro-pessimism and Afrofuturism, pessimistic futurism carefully considers how black female subjectivity and labour create the coming world. By linking human survival to Lilith’s own ability to adapt to the new and dangerous world, Butler offers scholars of black studies a vital interpretive framework for thinking about the points of contact between pessimism and futurism. Specifically, Butler presents a form of futurism brought back to Earth, grounded in the sensibility of the black female experience.

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Kenan, Randall. "An Interview With Octavia E. Butler." Callaloo 14, no. 2 (1991): 495. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2931654.

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The Huntington Library. "“Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories”." Science Fiction Studies 44, no. 3 (2017): 640. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.44.3.0640.

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Rowell, Charles H., and Octavia E. Butler. "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler." Callaloo 20, no. 1 (1997): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.1997.0003.

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Gerry Canavan. "Research in the Octavia E. Butler Archive." Science Fiction Studies 45, no. 1 (2018): 216. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.45.1.0216.

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Hampton, Gregory. "In Memoriam: Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)." Callaloo 29, no. 2 (2006): 245–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2006.0099.

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Johns, Adam. "Octavia Butler and the Art of Pseudoscience." English Language Notes 47, no. 2 (September 1, 2009): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-47.2.95.

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Jones, Cassandra L. "FutureBodies: Octavia Butler as a Post-Colonial Cyborg Theorist." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368927282.

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Bailey, Constance R. ""Give me that old time religion" reclaiming slave religion in the future /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5078.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on May 11, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

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Graves, Robert Christopher Jason. "The art of heterotopian rhetoric a theory of science fiction as rhetorical discourse /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245638686.

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Wood, Sarah. "The outsider within : explorations of the science fiction of Octavia Estelle Butler." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248497.

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A study of Octavia Butler has long been overdue. My aim is to rectify the paucity of critical commentary on her work, and to take into consideration the specificity of the African American woman. Examining how Butler's fiction interrogates the dual narratives of oppression that are an integral feature of black women's lives, I focus on six areas of Butler's fiction. Butler uses the conventions of science fiction to interrogate religious and secular mythologies that aim to limit and circumscribe the black woman; I explore how she amalgamates science fiction with other narrative modes such as fantasy, the historical novel, and the slave narrative. Linked to a consideration of Butler's use of science fiction is an exploration of the spaces she creates. I examine the categorisation of her work as either utopian or dystopian suggesting that Butler complicates this enterprise by questioning and extending its format. Her work rejects the hope and consolation offered by utopias; instead her fiction opens onto heterotopia, revelling in contradiction, difference, and change. Butler's fiction is preoccupied with the treatment of the black woman's bodily, material existence. She uses strategies of transformation to elude white patriarchal control, presenting us with grotesque figures and cyborg monsters that provide a parodic reversal of the images that have been apportioned to black men and women. Relations of self to its others are a fundamental aspect of Butler's work. However, rather than simply dramatising hierarchical, binary thinking and its subsequent deconstruction, her work offers alternative formations of self and other in which each term is able to recognise its other in their full subjectivity. Butler makes use of a linguistic heritage that is 'double-voiced'. The polyphonic construction of her texts, her use of Signifying, and the repetition and displacement that she enacts is indicative of much African American literature. Butler's reliance on religion in her work suggests a fundamental interrogation of Christianity. Her novels explore the complicated relationship that African Americans maintain toward the Judeo-Christian tradition; devices such as the introduction of African belief systems and the creation of an entirely new religion work to disrupt this. Articulating the view from the margins, Butler's fiction talks back to narratives of originary identity that posit the black woman as other, as inferior, and therefore, as subjugated to a white, male ideal.

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Davis, Ben Jr. "History, Race and Gender in the Science Fiction of Octavia Estelle Butler." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392045358.

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Llewellyn, Jana Diemer. "Rape in feminist utopian and dystopian fiction Joanna Russ's The female man, Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale, and Octavia Butler's The parable of the sower and The parable of the talents /." Click here for download, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/villanova/fullcit?p1432523.

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Manis, Haley V. "Reconciling the Past in Octavia Butler's Kindred." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3173.

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This thesis uses the observations of Nancy J. Peterson on historical wounds as a springboard to discuss Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred and its use of both white and black characters to reexamine the origins of the historical wounds and why they are so difficult to deal with even today. Other scholarly works will be used to further investigate the importance of each character in the story and what they mean to the wound itself. Specifically, Dana is analyzed alongside the other main characters: Rufus, Alice, and Kevin. Though Dana’s relationships with these characters, Kindred’s version of the past can be examined in order to determine why the past is so difficult to overcome and what the novel does to come to an understanding or reconciliation with it. This, in turn, allows for the present to be compared to Butler’s representation of the past as a way of reexamining history.

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Egbert, Teresa M. K. "Self through remembrance : identity construction and memory in the novels of Octavia E. Butler." Thesis, Bangor University, 2016. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/self-through-remembrance(370d2dc4-e0b2-4000-a0b8-aa696469142e).html.

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This thesis focuses on the roles of memory and identity in Octavia E. Butler’s novels: Kindred, Lilith’s Brood, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Fledgling. By using material from such diverse disciplines as philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology, I have treated the characters in Butler’s novels as individual selves; selves narrated by a living Butler. In current identity studies, the thought is that the self is constructed through narrative; therefore, what better way to analyze individual characters and communities than through the narrative provided by Butler. These selves are, of course, fictional, but how often are the selves we present, even temporarily, to the world in a given situation a fictional construction. We use many different critical tools to interpret and understand the world around us. While it is important to acknowledge the insightful implications of Butler’s work in regard to African American, gender, and feminist studies, there are unexplored approaches to her writing that can contribute to understanding the intricacies of Butler’s writing. This look at Butler’s texts shows that by opening up the ways we traditionally look at certain texts we can gain a more multi-faceted view of those texts, which are sometimes viewed through a type of tunnel vision. My discussion begins with a look at the theories used in the analyses of Butler’s novels. First, I look at Kindred and a discussion of individual identities and how they are deeply connected to group affiliations, as well as history. Then I move on to how group identities are created and influenced by collective memories in Lilith’s Brood. The Parable novels are the focus of my discussion on the construction of self through narrative. I end my analyses with a look at neuroscience and memory pathology through the amnestic protagonist of Fledgling.

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Campbell, Andrea Kate. "Narrating other natures a third wave ecocritical approach to Toni Morrison, Ruth Ozeki, and Octavia Butler /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/a_campbell_042110.pdf.

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Lange, Bianca. "Beyond Human Displacement(s) : Spacetime Stories of Agency in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177210.

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In this thesis project, the aim is to explore displacements beyond the familiar usage in migration studies associated with ’human’ by using a new materialist/s understanding ofontology and agency. This approach opens the possibility to move beyond the understanding of displacements as referring only to human agency. The fictionalised story, Parable of theSower, is used in the thesis as the real-world ontological world-building storytelling and the questions that flow from the aim of this thesis is used as a guiding navigator within the mainstory to see what other stories emerges; The Earthseed Story, The More-Than-Human Storiesand The Human Stories. Displacement(s) beyond human agency from a new materialist outlook show the complexity and challenges of being interconnected and codependent in a world containing multiple stories that move in and out of spacetime refuturing. This occursboth as dystopia and utopia, as agency is in-the-making and ongoing reshaping of territorialization and deterritorialization making all-the-flesh moving boundaries of being displaced and in-place in a belongings-non-belongings continuum. For future research,multispecies displacement(s) is discussed as ongoing processes of both; dystopian and utopian storytelling, and the possibilities for refuturing shared worlds.

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Books on the topic "Octavia E. Butler"

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Butler, Octavia E. Conversations with Octavia Butler. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

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Wood, Sarah. The outsider within: Explorations of the science fiction of Octavia Estelle Butler. Birmingham: University of Central England in Birmingham, 2002.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. New York: Routledge, 2009.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. New York: Routledge, 2009.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. New York: Routledge, 2010.

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Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. New York: Routledge, 2009.

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Black Atlantic speculative fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. New York: Routledge, 2009.

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Japtok, Martin, and Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, eds. Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46625-1.

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Octavia Butler (Vgsf 10 Copy S. Orion Publishing Co, 1999.

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Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler. Twelfth Planet Press, 2017.

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Book chapters on the topic "Octavia E. Butler"

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Thaler, Ingrid. "Butler, Octavia Estelle." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_4999-1.

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Thaler, Ingrid. "Octavia Estelle Butler." In Kindler Kompakt Amerikanische Literatur 20. Jahrhundert, 178–79. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05528-6_38.

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brown, adrienne maree, and Ayana A. H. Jamieson. "Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006)." In Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers, 31–35. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315558806-7.

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Thaler, Ingrid. "Butler, Octavia Estelle: Das Romanwerk." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_5000-1.

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Armitt, Lucie. "Chronotopes and Cyborgs: Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy." In Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic, 39–65. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230598997_3.

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Elbert Decker, Jessica. "Borderland Spaces of the Third Kind: Erotic Agency in Plato and Octavia Butler." In Borderlands and Liminal Subjects, 187–211. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_10.

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Japtok, Martin. "What Is “Love”? Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild”." In Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work, 51–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46625-1_4.

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Japtok, Martin, and Jerry Rafiki Jenkins. "Introduction: Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler’s Work." In Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work, 1–12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46625-1_1.

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Nanda, Aparajita. "A Palimpsestuous Reading of Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood." In Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture, 213–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64586-1_11.

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McCoy, Beth A. "“Accept the Risk”: Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and Institutional Power." In Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work, 73–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46625-1_5.

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