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Understanding Octavia E. Butler

Kendra R. Parker
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African American literature
afrofuturism
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Black arts movement
Bloodchild Other Stories
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Fledgling
Kindred
literary criticism
Parable of the Sower
science fiction
speculative fiction
Wild Seed
Xenogenesis

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  • ISBN 9781643365763
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Apr 2025
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
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. Her 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.
About Kendra R. Parker
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.

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