..., $55.00 ; e-book $55.00 . Octavia E. Butler . By Gerry Canavan . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2016 . xvii, 225 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $22.00 ; e-book, $19.80 . ...

... narratives including Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979), Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008), this essay explores the tension between sentimentality...

... of contemporary literature and film; the key prose authors discussed are Octavia E. Butler, Margaret Atwood, Ernest Callenbach, and Kim Stanley Robinson. These texts are used to identify patterns of thought that have become habitual in the cultural moment of the Anthropocene, and they are explored as critiques...

... fiction from comics like X-Men and Y: The Last Man to recent prose works by Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, and Richard Powers to filmic works like Orphan Black and Gattaca (1997). The “postsecular thinking” (30) produced by genomic knowledge seems to have a particular and unique resonance...

..., the author seeks applications—and even enactions—of these “ensembles, constellations, and configurations” in postapocalyptic novels like the MaddAddam trilogy (Margaret Atwood, 2003–13), Blindness (José Saramago, 1995), the Parable series (Octavia E. Butler, 1993–98), and The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006...

... master. 38 James McBride, Song Yet Sung (New York: Penguin, 2008), 280. Further references are to this edition and will be cited parenthetically in the text as SYS. 39 Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed (New York: Warner, 1988), 102, 105. 40 Another speculative novel of slavery...

... lit- erature and twentieth-­century African American literature. Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkin- son. By Ingrid Thaler. New York: Routledge. 2010. 193 pp. $103.00. Contemporary black female writers are the focus of this study, which uses...

... Baby, Charlotte Watson Sherman’s One Dark Body,LeonForrest’sDivine Days, Walter Mosley’s Black Betty, and Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. In the process Jablon explains and engages histories and theories of meta...

..., continuing with the work of prominent twentieth-century writers such as Octavia E. Butler, and concluding with a chapter on Michelle Obama. Chapter 1’s discussion of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Jacobs exemplifies Mitchell’s approach, namely identifying the negation inherent in what she...

... of postwar to contemporary novels, short fiction, and poetry by eight authors. This work will be of particular interest to scholars of Appalachian studies, regional writing, and US Southern literary studies. Of Bodies, Communities, and Voices: Agency in Writings by Octavia Butler . By Florian Bast...

... Margaret . 2014 . MaddAddam . New York : Anchor . Butler Octavia E. 1998 . Parable of the Talents . New York : Seven Stories . Butler Octavia E. [1993] 2000 . Parable of the Sower . New York : Grand Central . Cameron James , dir. 1991 . Terminator 2: Judgment...

... of Octavia Butler’s Fledgling (2005), for example, Pickens excavates how Butler depicts Black madness as too-often coopted within white liberalism as merely a critical tool to destabilize normative identities of race or ableism. Such employments of the agency of Black madness ignore the material reality...

... Salvaggio, “Octavia Butler and the Black Science Fiction Heroine,” Black American Literature Forum 18 (summer 1984): 78–81; and Thelma J. Shinn, “The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. Butler,” in Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary...

... Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993), Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (2000), Jeanette Winterson’s Stone Gods (2007), Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997), and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men (1998). Each of the five main chapters advances...

... is the exas- peration of Octavia Butler’s high-­school writing teacher: “Can’t you write anything normal?”9 Many writers and critics continue to distinguish SF from “genuine” literature with all the confidence of Justice Potter Stewart when he sliced another guilty pleasure out from the body...

... that ask readers to perform new ethical relations to “difference and otherness,” including works by Shakespeare, Herman Mel- ville, Octavia Butler, Cory Doctorow, and Philip K. Dick. In a series of “case studies” that demonstrate the transitions between the local, national, and global, this work...

... of the civil rights and black power movements. Such themes can be found in the neo-slave narrative genre, which first emerged in the second half of the twentieth century with the publication of novels like Margaret Walker’s Jubilee (1966), Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979), and Toni Morrison’s Beloved...

... Velázquez Antonio, and Makenzie Renee Fitzgerald—and their professor, Benjamin Reiss, the important role public humanities can play in such a crisis. For his part, Michael Bérubé embraces uncertainty, turning to Octavia Butler’s Parable novels to find in her postapocalyptic speculative fiction what he calls...

... Coupland’s Girlfriend in a Coma, and an essay by Sarah Wood explores the intersection of religion and patriarchy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. 870 American Literature August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle. Ed. Alan Nadel. Iowa City...

... the importance of black writers of science fiction like Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler, he seeks to move the study of black speculative fiction beyond the scholarship on those two authors. Indeed, books like Carrington’s mark an important point of maturation for the study of comics within academic...