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by Kendra R. Parker
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kendra R. ParkerSeries:Understanding Contemporary American LiteraturePublish date:2025-04-24Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of South Carolina PressISBN-13:9781643365770ISBN-10:1643365770UPC:9781643365770Book Category:Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Science Fiction & Fantasy, American, Literary FiguresBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCREVDDD03

New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afrofuturism, is among the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Butler's work blurs the boundaries of commercial genres, exploring themes of race, gender and sexuality, religion, politics, and environment. A recipient of the MacArthur "Genius Grant" and PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, Butler is best known for her novels Kindred (1979), Parable of the Sower (1993), and Fledgling (2005).

In Understanding Octavia E. Butler, Kendra R. Parker surveys Butler's life, career, and major works, highlighting her ongoing interest in Black peoples' pasts, presents, and futures. After a biographical introduction, Parker evaluates Butler's career chronologically and thematically, with chapters covering her engagement with the African American literary tradition, her romance novels, and her nonfiction.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of South Carolina PressISBN-13:9781643365770ISBN-10:1643365770UPC:9781643365770Book Category:Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Science Fiction & Fantasy, American, Literary FiguresBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCREVDDD03

Kendra R. Parker is associate professor of African American Literature at Georgia Southern University. She is the author of She Bites Back: Black Female Vampires in African American Women's Novels, 1977-2011, and coeditor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler. Parker is president of the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society and has appeared on NPR's hit podcast It's Been a Minute.


Publisher: University of South Carolina Press

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