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- Title
Octavia Butler: A Retrospective.
- Authors
Smith, Stephanie A.
- Abstract
This article presents a retrospective about feminist African American author Octavia E. Butler. The author argues both for the need to more seriously engage science fiction/fantasy (SF/F) as a vital genre of U.S. fiction and for Butler's place as one of the most prominent and provocative feminist voices within this genre. The author suggests that readers look to the ways in which SF/F allows for good authors to address the political realities of their time and to consider the ways SF/F facilitates critical analyses of racial/gender/sexual issues. The author draws particular attention to Butler's address of race as persuasively complex and disturbing and always framed by an acknowledgment of the roots of racist fantasy in the violence of raced slavery in the U.S.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BUTLER, Octavia E., 1947-2006; SCIENCE fiction; FEMINISTS; RACE; VIOLENCE
- Publication
Feminist Studies, 2007, Vol 33, Issue 2, p385
- ISSN
0046-3663
- Publication type
Article