Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler’s complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author’s work, including: · Cyborgs and the posthuman · Race and African American history · Afrofuturism · Gender and sexuality · New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies · New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington Library The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due.
| ISBN: | 9781350079632 |
| Publication date: | 20th February 2020 |
| Author: | Professor Gregory J Howard University, USA Hampton |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 312 pages |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Genres: |
Ethnic studies Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Science Fiction |
Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler’s complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author’s work, including: · Cyborgs and the posthuman · Race and African American history · Afrofuturism · Gender and sexuality · New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies · New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington Library The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler features in the following genres: Ethnic studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Science Fiction
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler is available in Hardback
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler was written by Professor Gregory J Howard University, USA Hampton and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler has 312 pages
Yes it is part of Bloomsbury Handbooks series