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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.<br>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 fa

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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

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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. T

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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

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Lewis, Noelle Elizabeth. "Situating Octavia Butler's Kindred as a Response to the Black Power and Black Studies Movements." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1629717405113431.

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Smith, Roslyn Nicole. "Medias Res, Temporal Double-Consciousness and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11242007-230409/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Elizabeth West, committee chair; Layli Phillips, Kameelah Martin Samuel, committee members. Electronic text (52 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 30, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).

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Williams, Algie Vincent. "Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/126489.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>This project argues that Octavia's Butler's construction of the black woman characters is unique within the pantheon of late eighties African-American writers primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five sections beginning with an intensive examination of Butler's ur-character, Anyanwu. This character is vitally important in discussing Butler's canon because she embodies the attributes and thematic issues that run throughout the author's work, specifically, the author's argument t

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Boulter, Amanda. "Speculative feminisms : the significance of feminist theory in the science fiction of Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr, and Octavia Butler." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296179.

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LaFaver, Zakary H. "Back to the Future: Taking a Trip Back in Order to Move Forward in Octavia Butler’s Kindred." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/215.

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Slavery is something that cannot be taken lightly. Even Butler says no matter how harsh the slavery in her novel is, it does not compare to how gruesome actual slavery was: “As a matter of fact, one of the things I realized when I was reading the slave narrative…was that I was not going to be able to come anywhere near presenting slavery as it was. I was going to have to do a some-what cleaned-up version of slavery, or no one would be willing to read it” (qtd. in Kenan 497). Octavia Butler knew that if she presented slavery directly and in a way that called people, most likely white males, t

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Vargas, Melissa. "Confronting environmental and social crises : Octavia E. Butler's critique of the spiritual roots of environmental injustice in her Parable novels /." [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/18/.

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Adolfsson, Linnea. "Genom våra ögon : En komparativ litteraturanalys av Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid’s Tale och Octavia E. Butlers Kindred, utifrån forskningsfältet kulturella minnesstudier." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Litteraturvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37492.

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This essay’s primarily focus is on the common discourse about the persisting effects of the past in the present in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale(1985)and Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979).These novels are the testimonies of the protagonists Offred and Dana who shares their experience of traumatic violence and oppression. Dana, with her ability to time travel, will see her present time in clearer light as she experiences the life of a slave on an antebellum plantation. Offred, the Handmaiden owned by the totalitarian regime Gilead, portrays her contemporary life in parallel to remember

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Ivey, Adriane Louise. "Rewriting Christianity : African American women writers and the Bible /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9987234.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-216). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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James, Lisa. "“To shape God, Shape Self”: The Political Manipulation of the Human Body and Reclamation of Space in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23673.

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This paper considers the role of the human body in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of theSower and the way it interacts with defined space to stage expressive forms of politicalopposition. Understanding the relationship between physical or metaphorical space and thecontradictions of the societies they encompass is crucial to deciphering Butler’s near-futuredystopia; a world where the problems of real-life Los Angeles and Southern California aredistorted into a gross carnivalesque of gender stereotypes, sociopolitical tensions, and vigilante warfare. This paper places a special emphasis on the

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Melkner, Moser Linda. "Character Narrators, the Implied Author, and the Authorial Audience: A Rhetorical and Ethical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-49262.

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This essay considers the interplay between character narrators, the implied author, and the authorial audience in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents. The aim of the study was to investigate how narrators, the implied author, and readers position themselves in relation to each other and in relation to the novel’s ethical dimensions. The theoretical framework is based on James Phelan’s theories on the rhetorical and ethical aspects of fiction. The essay argues that the implied author’s communication to the authorial audience is one of the reasons that the novel, like its prequel Parable of

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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.

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Graves, Robert Christopher. "The Art of Heterotopian Rhetoric: A Theory of Science Fiction as Rhetorical Discourse." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1245638686.

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Ullrich-Ferguson, Loretta N. "The beauty of her survival : being Black and female in Meridian, The salt eaters, Kindred, and The bluest eye /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464907.pdf.

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Campbell, James. "Variable Otherness in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166051.

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This paper explores the Xenogenesis trilogy written by Octavia Bulter and how it presents Otherness as a concept. It provides several examples of otherness and additionally presents ideas of how it can be seen as something to be celebrated.

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Perez, Jeannina. "Matrilineal memories : revisionist histories in three contemporary Afro-American women's novels." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1127.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English

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Jones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.

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Coleman, Darrell Edward. "THE TROPE OF DOMESTICITY: NEO- SLAVE NARRATIVE SATIRE ON PATRIARCHY AND BLACK MASCULINITY." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1371724364.

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Belle, Dixie-Ann. "Navigating the past, envisioning the future : Octavia Butler's heroines." FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1484.

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In this thesis, I examined three novels by African American science fiction novelist Octavia Butler: Kindred (1979), Parable of the Sower (1994), Parable of the Talents (1998) and Dawn (1987). I analyzed Butler's belief that society has become too firmly attached to old customs and belief systems, initiating destructive, self-defeating cycles in our history. She looks to African American females to take up leadership roles and exact radical change to ensure society's continued survival as well as progress, acceptance and autonomy within our communities. I also established Butler's significant

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Payne, Kimberly Ellen. "Examining the female leader in Octavia Butler's dawn and Fledgling." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/235.

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This study examines the prototypical female leader as constructed by Octavia Butler in her science fiction novels, Dawn and Fledgling. The premise of the study relates to the protagonists’ capacity to undergo arduous tasks in extraordinary circumstances so that they can ultimately lead their people into a revolutionized society. Overcoming enormous obstacles, including the rejection of the very people they must lead, proves that both protagonists, Lilith Ilypo, in Dawn, and Shori Matthews, in Fledgling, are the women of the future, created to lead human beings into a “brave new world.” The stu

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Lehtosaari, E. (Eveliina). "Postapokalyptinen heeros:monomyytti ja sankaruuden toisintoistaminen Octavia E. Butlerin romaanissa Dawn." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201812183280.

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Evans, Taylor. "Genetic Engineering as Literary Praxis: A Study in Contemporary Literature." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5200.

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This thesis considers the understudied issue of genetic engineering as it has been deployed in the literature of the late 20th century. With reference to the concept of the enlightened gender hybridity of Cyborg theory and an eye to ecocritical implications, I read four texts: Joan Slonczewski's 1986 science fiction novel A Door Into Ocean, Octavia Butler's science fiction trilogy Lilith's Brood – originally released between 1987 and 1989 as Xenogenesis – Simon Mawer's 1997 literary novel Mendel's Dwarf, and the first two books in Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction MaddAddam series: 2003's

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Sautman, Matthew B. "Queering a Black Temporality in Octavia Butler's Kindred | Ruminations on a Black-Oriented Understanding of Time." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10974012.

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<p> This study interrogates the resonances of queer utopianism in Octavia Butler’s presentation of time in Kindred in order to address the lack of existing scholarship on the novel’s relationship with queer temporality. To conduct this interrogation, I utilize the work of queer optimists like Muñoz, Berlant, and Ahmed to deconstruct the text phenomenologically in conjunction with queer pessimists like Halberstam and Edelman to nuance this analysis. To prevent this analysis from being overtaken by a white gaze, I also make use of Black scholars like Morrison, Sharpe, Cooper,

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Grewal, Harsimrat Kaur. "The creation of artistic space and literary possibility through speculative fiction in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Fledgling." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/460587554/viewonline.

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Kaiser, John William. "Paz's theory of self /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1335359551&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-176). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Calbert, Tonisha Marie. "(Re)Writing Apocalypse: Race, Gender, and Radical Change in Black Apocalyptic Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593596843453299.

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Sellitti, Alicia Dawn. "Re-membering the normative black female body a critical investigation of race, gender and disability in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Sula /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/463441904/viewonline.

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Karlsson, Josefine. "Counteracting racist attitudes and prejudices in the EFL-classroom: : An investigation on the effects of the social environment around the white character Rufus Weylin in the Antebellum South as depicted in Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-72016.

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The multicultural classroom is becoming more prominent in Sweden. Students from different cultures and ethnicities meet to learn in the same environment. In a changing society, the need to develop acceptance towards others is more important than ever. Thus, in this essay, post-colonial and social influence theories have been applied to the analysis of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred. This essay argues that by integrating post-colonial literature in the EFL- classroom, students can gain deeper intercultural knowledge and learn to understand the power of the social environment concerning its

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Benavente, Gabriel. "Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3186.

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This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for

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McGarity, Kristin Anne. "In memoriam Octavia Butler: for chorus, orchestra, and speaker." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/6693.

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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), the first major African-American woman science fiction writer and the only science-fiction author to win the MacArthur "genius" grant, died from an accidental fall in February 2006. She is remembered for her work, which clearly fits into the science-fiction tradition, with imagined near- and far-future technologies, telepathy, aliens, space travel, and time travel. Yet Butler's stories are not clichéd space operas featuring white men in spaceship battles. Whatever the near- or far-future setting, the challenging themes that form the substance of Butler's writing

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Boccara, Ella. "Female identity and race in contemporary Afrofuturist narratives : "Wild seed" by Octavia E. Butler." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24182.

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Ce mémoire explore les notions de race et d’identité féminine à travers le récit afro-futuriste Wild Seed d’Octavia Butler. Décrit comme le nouveau genre de la ‘fiction spéculative’ par les théoriciens universitaires, l’afro-futurisme joint le spéculatif au réalisme afin d’explorer les conjonctions entre les diasporas africaines, l’écriture africaine américaine et les technologies modernes. Cette thèse propose une analyse critique et théorique du roman Wild Seed d’Octavia Butler, en se concentrant particulièrement sur ses divers concepts et ses allégories historiques. Plutôt que d’ignorer le r

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Korejtková, Adéla. "Hybridní těla a hybridní identity v dílech Octavie Butlerové." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-345650.

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The thesis explores the theme of hybridity in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy and in her last novel, Fledgling, which both deal with complex relationships between humans and a different species. The main focus is on the characters of mixed origin - offspring of two distinct species and beings whose existence is a result of genetic experiments. These individuals occupy a metaphorical "in-between" space where cultural, racial, sexual and other boundaries meet and blur. The theoretical framework follows two sets of ideas - Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity and the so-called Third Space, and

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Favreau, Alyssa. "Galactic ecofeminism and posthuman transcendence : the tentative utopias of Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21252.

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Donaldson, Eileen. "A chronology of her own : the treatment of time in selected works of second wave feminist speculative fiction." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28698.

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Prior to the 1960s and 1970s most studies of time undertaken in the West treated it as an objective phenomenon, devoid of ideological inscriptions. Second Wave feminists challenged this view, arguing that time is not neutral but one of the mechanisms used by patriarchal cultures to subjugate women. The argument was that temporal modes, like everything else in patriarchal reality, had been gendered. Linear time was masculine because it was associated with the male-dominated public domain in which science, commerce and production took place. The natural world, mysticism, the private domain, dome

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Ling-LingChang and 張玲綾. "It’s Not over Yet: Unending Stories in Octavia Butler’s Kindred." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4s2qd7.

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Payam, Askari Fahimeh. "Shapeshifting in Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed and Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22486.

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Yueh, Hong-Fu, and 樂竑甫. "Unstable Body and Fluid Gender in Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37591230164931055088.

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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>外國文學所<br>95<br>In the Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood, Butler creates brand new human beings whose gender is fluid. However, new human beings’ fluid gender troubles human resisters in the story because most of them still think gender has to be stable. However, what makes new human beings’ gender fluid? In order to answer this question, this thesis divides into five parts. In the first part, the background of story and author will be introduced. In second part, the discussion focuses on human resisters’ gender is hailed by the interpellation of stable gender and as hailed sub

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Roriz, Camila Moreira Santana. "Formas de vida: (arte como matéria vivida)." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43136.

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In an attempt to talk about my experimental artistic process I found inspiration from some artists and authors: Donna Haraway, biologist and philosopher, who believes in the power of storytelling as a possibility to reinvent ways of living in a damaged world; Octavia Butler, author of science fiction books that raise questions about patterns that are shown to us throughout our Western society. Maria Lassnig, is a painter who experimented with the artistic movements of her time but even so allowed herself to tell her own internal narratives. And other artists who continue to resist and make art

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Jin-shiuYin and 殷進栩. "Return to the Southern Plantation: the Unforgotten Family Histories in Octavia Butler’s Kindred." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7u8248.

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Pan, Ying-fan, and 潘盈方. "Crossing Boundaries: the Cybernetic Transformations of Human Body and Community in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65148833058488344850.

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碩士<br>高雄師範大學<br>英語學系<br>100<br>Depicting the constant conflicts between human beings and aliens, Octavia E. Butler points out the root of the problem in contemporary human society in her Xenogenesis Trilogy. Presenting to us that hierarchy as the inherent nature of human beings may lead to destruction and devastation to human civilization, Butler offers us a solution to the possible nightmarish future: we should embrace difference and change. The thesis aims to explore the issue of transgressing boundaries manifested in Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy from the posthuman perspective. While the tra

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Wu, Tai-Yi, and 吳太一. "Utopia and Memory: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z8h8fk.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>外國語文學研究所<br>107<br>This thesis ventures to delve into the intersection of utopia and memory, and how the past, the present, and the future are closely intertwined. Memory is not simply retrospective, but can also be prospective. Vincent Geoghegan proposes a term “remembering the future,” which entails that “past memories will have a constitutive role in the forming of … present and future perceptions,” and that we “enter the future with a body of assumptions and preoccupation located in memory” (54). This thesis takes Geoghegan’s theory of utopian memory as a point of departure

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