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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Octavia Butler"”.
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An Africentric Reading Protocol: The Speculative Fiction Of Octavia Butler And Tananarive Due
… reading protocol to selected works of Octavia E. Butler and Tananarive Due. Butler's Parable Series and Due's African Immortals Series are examined using seven elements of Africentric narrative specific to cultural speculative fiction. Finally, I discuss the implications of using an …
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Locating the Destitute: Place in Postcolonial Fiction (V.S. Naipaul, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Octavia Butler)
… for Mr. Biswas, Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco and Octavia Butler's Kindred. Using space as a narrative device and an analytical category, I question the tendency of mainstream postcolonial criticism to exchange the forceful binarism of the anti-colonial struggle for a largely discursive …
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"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum": Reproduction and Resistance in Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and the Alien Series
This thesis proposes a comparative study of Octavia E. Butlers Xenogenesis trilogy (1987-89), Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985), and the Alien series (1979-97). I argue that these three texts resist patriarchal oppression upon the female fertile body. I examine how they rewrite and …
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Octavia Butler's Parables and Black African American Hyper-Empathic Neurodivergent Feminists : On Shame and Solidarity
… well as a critical discourse analysis of two of Octavia Butler's novels, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998). The following research questions guide my analysis: 1a) How is shame conceptualized in shame research? 1b) How does shame function and why? 2) How does shame …
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Jokes from the Gallows
… the authors, including J. Robert Lennon and Octavia Butler, who inspired my fiction and shaped my views on dark humor</p>
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
… intellectual tradition. Reading novels by Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood, the second half of my dissertation explores partially religious subjectivities that escape the Protestant-secular binary and expand American secular culture to accommodate alternative religious traditions on a …
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Contending With Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance
… a different world. Responding to the work of Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, N. K. Jemisin, Janelle Monáe, and Rebecca Sugar, I create narrative vignettes that speculate about how marronage and erotic agency, when enacted by colonized peoples, might support the work of decolonizing our …
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Towards Dark Fecundity - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology
… Dark Fecundity centres the work of writer Octavia Butler as a frame through which to consider the transformative practice of destabilising hegemonic narratives within the expanded field of speculative fiction. Alongside Butler, Ursula Le Guin’s ‘carrier bag’ theory of fiction is a guide …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
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 …
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Spelling violation: writing bodies from the margins
… structure not only the "linguistic life" Judith Butler names, but also the material/physical life that ghosts every text.As William Blake, Mary Robinson and Octavia Butler constitute the textual slave body they sharpen the stakes in the power and risk of marginal literary possession. Through …
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Blood, Enjoyment and Belonging in Selected Vampire Fiction
… I Am Legend (1954) and Fledgling (2005) by Octavia Butler – are centralised in this discussion. A conclusion examines the first season of the television series True Blood (HBO, 2008).
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Female Pleasure and Theories of Desire in Narrative Structure: Evolution, Futurity, and Species Survival in the Post-Human and Science Fiction Imaginary
… Galactica, Mass Effect 3,</em> and Octavia Butler's <em>Parable of the Trickster</em>.</p> <p>The reimagined television series <em>Battlestar Galactica</em> self-consciously poses questions regarding its own structural design. A moment of quiescence, positioned after the end and …
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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop
… and collectives like Critical Resistance and Octavia’s Brood, the paper utilizes discursive questioning, drawing, and acts of “political looking” to decode our visual world.</p> <p>Pitfalls are inevitable, ranging from uneasy truces between author and audience to the economic realities of …