Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond to Butler's fiction. The study asserts that Butler's fiction transforms the way the body is imagined with reference to race and gender. This text examines how Butler's fiction is able to cross several genre boundaries while simultaneously reshaping the genre of science fiction. This book makes the claim that Butler's fiction is crucial for contemporary and future investigations of identity formation. Discussions of race, class, and sex are reoccurring topic that are inextricable to any understanding of body politics and theory. This book is filled with exciting and insightful discussions that raise questions about what constitutes humanity in Butler's fiction and in the real world. Ultimately, the purpose of the text is to add to the scholarship surrounding Butler and to bring her to the attention of audiences that might otherwise overlook her work. This book is an invitation for readers inside and outside of the academy to discover the fiction of Octavia Butler.
It is a thoughtful and thought provoking work on Ovtavia Butler. Hampton has studied her works and done an analysis of her characters and themes that adds to the appreciation of her genius.
5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星A Great Introduction to the Fiction of Octavia Butler
2010年11月18日 - 已在美国亚马逊上发表
I have been a strict, non-fiction reader for years. I have been encouraged by many to get more into fiction as a change of pace from non-fiction. I have been STRONGLY encouraged by a few people, I trust, to get into the fiction of Octavia Butler. Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires was scholarly and clear enough to engage my non-fiction, didactic side but also piqued my interest to be entertained by the fiction of Octavia Butler. With the foundation that Hampton provided in this book, I feel ready to not only be entertained by Octavia Butler's books, but I also welcome having my world view changed in the process. This book is a must-have for Octavia Butler fans and non-fiction readers, like me, who want to transition into science-fiction.
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