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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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Marez, Curtis. "Octavia E. Butler, After the Chicanx Movement." Women's Studies 47, no. 7 (October 3, 2018): 755–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2018.1518621.

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Russell, Natalie. "Meeting Octavia E. Butler in Her Papers." Women's Studies 48, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 8–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2018.1559406.

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Magnone, Sophia Booth. "Microbial Zoopoetics in Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark." Humanimalia 7, no. 2 (March 20, 2016): 109–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9668.

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This paper reads Octavia Butler’s 1984 novel Clay’s Ark as a speculative handbook for living collaboratively in a more-than-human world. Drawing on Aaron Moe’s theory of zoopoetics, as well as emerging research on the effects of the human microbiome on health, behavior, and personality, I consider how the novel’s “villain,” an infectious microbe, might be not just a germ but an author, writing difference into the text of the human species. Depicting this interspecies relationship as both troubling and productive, Butler suggests the urgent need for humans to construct responsible and mutually beneficial forms of collaboration with their nonhuman neighbors of all sorts.
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Volker, Camila Bylaardt. "A parábola do semeador: Octavia Butler." Em Tese 26, no. 3 (June 22, 2021): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.26.3.280-287.

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Scott, Jonathan. "Octavia butler and the base for American socialism." Socialism and Democracy 20, no. 3 (November 2006): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08854300600950269.

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Crow, Charles L. "Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler." Western American Literature 30, no. 1 (1995): 121–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wal.1995.0099.

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Iuliano, Fiorenzo. "American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, edited by Wai Chee Dimock et al." Review of International American Studies 12, no. 2 (December 23, 2019): 167–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rias.8015.

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Govan, Sandra Y. "Homage to Tradition: Octavia Butler Renovates the Historical Novel." MELUS 13, no. 1/2 (1986): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/467226.

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David Ketterer. "The Case for Rape: John Wyndham and Octavia Butler." Science Fiction Studies 38, no. 2 (2011): 373. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.38.2.0373.

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Marleen S. Barr. "Oy/Octavia: or Keeping My Promise to Ms. Butler." Callaloo 32, no. 4 (2009): 1312–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.0.0575.

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Bollinger, Laurel. "Placental Economy: Octavia Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Speculative Subjectivity." Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 18, no. 4 (December 4, 2007): 325–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10436920701708044.

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Loichot, Valérie. "“We are all related”: Edouard Glissant Meets Octavia Butler." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 13, no. 3 (November 1, 2009): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-025.

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Vieira, Danielly Cristina Pereira, and Brenda Carlos de Andrade. "A perspectiva ciborgue, identidade e diferença em Dawn (1987), de Octavia E. Butler." Revista Memorare 6, no. 1 (July 16, 2019): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.19177/memorare.v6e12019188-200.

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O ciborgue é constantemente utilizado para representar as complexas e constantes transformações identitárias que constituem a humanidade pósmoderna. Esperamos refletir acerca da problemática proposta por Octavia Butler acerca do corpo ciborgue relacionando-o à subjetividade identitária humana a fim de suscitar o debate acerca da nossa própria realidade enquanto sujeitos metamórficos, pós-modernos. É nessa perspectiva que trabalharemos com a obra Dawn (1987), de Octavia E. Butler, objetivando analisar a transformação do corpo humano para um corpo ciborgue entendendo esse processo como metáfora para o romper de fronteiras principalmente identitárias e o seu rejeitar como metáfora para a visão essencialista acerca da diferença. Para isso, utilizaremos Tomaz Tadeu (2009), Chris Gray, Steven Mentor e Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera (1995) e Donna Haraway (2009), para discutir a teoria do ciborgue e Gloria Anzaldúa (1987), Ernesto Laclau (1990), Edward Said (1995), e Stuart Hall (2006; 2011) para discutir a questões sobre identidade e diferença.
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Mehaffy, M., and A. Keating. ""Radio Imagination": Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 26, no. 1 (March 1, 2001): 45–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3185496.

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Jamieson, Ayana, and Moya Bailey. "Mapping Desire: Octavia E. Butler Studies as Palimpsest and Praxis." Women's Studies 47, no. 7 (October 3, 2018): 695–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2018.1518617.

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Lloyd, Vincent. "Post-Racial, Post-Apocalyptic Love: Octavia Butler as Political Theologian." Political Theology 17, no. 5 (August 8, 2016): 449–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1462317x.2016.1211296.

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Hampton, Gregory Jerome, and Wanda M. Brooks. "Octavia Butler and Virginia Hamilton: Black Women Writers and Science Fiction." English Journal 92, no. 6 (July 2003): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3650538.

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Palwick, S. "Imagining a Sustainable Way of Life An Interview with Octavia Butler." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 6, no. 2 (July 1, 1999): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/6.2.149.

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Van Engen, Dagmar. "Metamorphosis, Transition, and Insect Biology in the Octavia E. Butler Archive." Women's Studies 47, no. 7 (October 3, 2018): 733–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2018.1518620.

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Jamieson, Ayana, and Moya Bailey. "Emergent Counter-Memories in the Field of Octavia E. Butler Studies." Women's Studies 48, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2018.1559405.

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Chelsea M. Frazier. "Troubling Ecology: Wangechi Mutu, Octavia Butler, and Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism." Critical Ethnic Studies 2, no. 1 (2016): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/jcritethnstud.2.1.0040.

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Walker, Alison Tara. "Destabilizing Order, Challenging History: Octavia Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Affective Beginnings." Extrapolation 46, no. 1 (January 2005): 103–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2005.46.1.10.

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Bast, Florian. "35. Of Bodies, Communities, and Voices: Agency in Writings by Octavia Butler." English and American Studies in German 2015, no. 1 (November 1, 2015): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/east-2016-0036.

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Luckhurst, Roger. "‘Horror and beauty in rare combination’: The miscegenate fictions of Octavia butler." Women: A Cultural Review 7, no. 1 (March 1996): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574049608578256.

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Laura Diehl. "AMERICAN GERM CULTURE: RICHARD MATHESON, OCTAVIA BUTLER, AND THE (POLITICAL) SCIENCE OF INDIVIDUALITY." Cultural Critique 85 (2013): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/culturalcritique.85.2013.0084.

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Alexander. "Octavia E. Butler and Black Women's Archives at the End of the World." Science Fiction Studies 46, no. 2 (2019): 342. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.46.2.0342.

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Bailey, Moya, and Ayana A. H. Jamieson. "Guest Editors' Introduction: Palimpsests in the Life and Work of Octavia E. Butler." Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 6, no. 1 (2017): v—xiii. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2017.0014.

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Schalk, Sami. "Experience, Research, and Writing: Octavia E. Butler as an Author of Disability Literature." Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 6, no. 1 (2017): 153–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2017.0018.

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Shelley Streeby. "Speculative Fictions of A Divided World: Reading Octavia E. Butler in South Korea." Journal of English Language and Literature 62, no. 2 (June 2016): 149–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.15794/jell.2016.62.2.001.

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Menne, Jeff. ""I live in this world, too": Octavia Butler and the State of Realism." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 57, no. 4 (2011): 715–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2011.0089.

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Akers, Allison. "Divinity and its Imitation in the Utopian Visions of Death Note and Parable of the Sower." Digital Literature Review 6 (January 15, 2019): 105–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.6.0.105-118.

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This paper explores the impact of divinity and divine imitation in the anime series Death Note byTsugumi Ohba and the novel Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, comparing the philosophiesof their respective protagonists and the success of their utopian visions. Death Note’s protagonist’sutopian vision become dystopian because of his violent tendencies and pursuit to become a god,while Parable of the Sower’s protagonist’s utopian vision succeeds because of her trust in others andher view of god as an ever changing force that people must shape to survive.
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Souza, José Ailson Lemos de. "Alteridade e Violência em Kindred." Em Tese 23, no. 3 (August 29, 2018): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.23.3.12-25.

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Neste trabalho, analisamos as relações entre alteridade e violência em Kindred (2003), de Octavia Butler. Parte-se da premissa de que é a partir dessas relações que a narradora se defronta com a própria identidade (mulher e negra), problematizada a partir do lugar que ocupa. Ao mesclar elementos de ficção científica com narrativas de escravidão, o romance oferece uma visão aterradora e intolerável das falhas no reconhecimento do outro. Antes da análise, apresentamos breves considerações sobre alteridade e afeto a partir da discussão presente em Susan Ruddick (2010) e Judith Butler (2015). No passado, um aparato de dominação de um grupo de pessoas sobre outro foi estabelecido a partir, principalmente, do preconceito racial. No presente, diferenças de gênero, sexo e raça ainda são manipuladas em prol de relações de dominação. Ao percorrer as duas dimensões temporais, a protagonista de Kindred (2003) enfrenta e interage com as dificuldades de ser o outro.
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Cardoso, André Cabral de Almeida. "O espaço da troca: a comunicação sem palavras na trilogia Xenogenesis de Octavia Butler." Remate de Males 32, no. 2 (December 19, 2012): 229–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/remate.v32i2.8635884.

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Nos romances de ficção científica que formam a trilogia Xenogenesis, de Octavia Butler, a criação de híbridos de humanos com alienígenas dá origem a uma nova subjetividade utópica baseada na fluidez e no apagamento das fronteiras entre os indivíduos, cujas sensações e emoções circulam numa espécie de comunicação sem palavras que elimina a mediação da linguagem verbal. Um ideal de comunicação semelhante pode ser encontrado na cultura sentimental que se consolidou na França e na Grã-Bretanha em meados do século XVIII. Esse ideal encontra sua expressão paradigmática na pequena comunidade de Clarens descrita em Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, romance sentimental de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Ao comparar esses dois textos que pertencem a gêneros radicalmente diferentes e escritos em contextos tão distintos, o objetivo deste artigo é examinar como se constitui o resgate de um modelo de comunicação sentimental numa narrativa de ficção científica americana escrita no final do século XX, e a sua relevância nesse novo contexto. Eu também vou discutir as possibilidades utópicas desse modelo de comunicação e o que ele pode revelar a respeito da imaginação utópica contemporânea, assim como estabelecer algumas conexões entre a nossa cultura atual e a tradição sentimental do século XVIII.
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Hupe, Ana Luiza. "Mudar de corpo em ode aos invisíveis." PragMATIZES - Revista Latino-Americana de Estudos em Cultura, no. 12 (March 22, 2017): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/pragmatizes.v0i12.152.

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Este artigo entende a arte como processo de conscientização que se contrapõe à alienação imposta pelo sistema pós-industrial. As lacunas deixadas pela herança colonial são preenchidas com a força rítmica da caminhada e pelo encantamento com o afrofuturismo para desesteriotipar a África e Brasil como lugares do precário. Este texto sonha um mundo sem fronteiras, em que as sujeições identitárias escravizantes pulverizem no ar. Descrições sobre a estada da autora na África do Sul, iluminadas por trabalhos de artistas como Sean O’Toole, Superflex, Sun Ra e Octavia Butler, fazem refletir sobre a importância de práticas de descolonização e de uma releitura dos fluxos migratórios.
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Hupe, Ana Luiza. "Mudar de corpo em ode aos invisíveis." PragMATIZES - Revista Latino-Americana de Estudos em Cultura, no. 12 (March 22, 2017): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/pragmatizes2017.12.a10448.

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Este artigo entende a arte como processo de conscientização que se contrapõe à alienação imposta pelo sistema pós-industrial. As lacunas deixadas pela herança colonial são preenchidas com a força rítmica da caminhada e pelo encantamento com o afrofuturismo para desesteriotipar a África e Brasil como lugares do precário. Este texto sonha um mundo sem fronteiras, em que as sujeições identitárias escravizantes pulverizem no ar. Descrições sobre a estada da autora na África do Sul, iluminadas por trabalhos de artistas como Sean O’Toole, Superflex, Sun Ra e Octavia Butler, fazem refletir sobre a importância de práticas de descolonização e de uma releitura dos fluxos migratórios.
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Thrall, James H. "Authoring the Sacred: Humanism and Invented Scripture in Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut and Dan Simmons." Implicit Religion 17, no. 4 (December 12, 2014): 509–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/imre.v17i4.509.

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Call, Lewis. "Structures of Desire: Erotic Power in the Speculative Fiction of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany." Rethinking History 9, no. 2-3 (June 2005): 275–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642520500149194.

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Alaimo, S. "Displacing Darwin and Descartes The Bodily Transgressions of Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3, no. 1 (July 1, 1996): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/3.1.47.

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Allen, Marlene D. "Kindred Spirits: The Speculative Fictions of Pauline E. Hopkins, Octavia E. Butler, and Tananarive Due." CLA Journal 61, no. 1-2 (2017): 95–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/caj.2017.0032.

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Parker, Kendra R. "Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires (review)." Callaloo 35, no. 2 (2012): 536–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2012.0038.

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