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Author | : Lin Knutson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2023-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1666903116 |
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This book explores the ways in which Butler’s protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through liminality, they engage in psychological, physical, and social transformations that increase their empowerment.
Author | : Octavia E. Butler |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2023-03-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1538765470 |
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From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their salvation comes at a cost. The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species—rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies—is destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the two races to produce a new hybrid species—and they will not tolerate rebellion. Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races' future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.
Author | : Alexei Panshin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : 9780283980534 |
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Author | : Octavia E. Butler |
Publisher | : Aspect |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1997-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780446603782 |
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Told in the haunting voice of Lilith, the heroine of "Dawn", this book is thestory of Lilith's only son, Akin. Though he resembles a normal human, Akin isthe first "construct"--part man/part alien.
Author | : Octavia E. Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781435242470 |
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In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
Author | : Octavia E. Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : African American authors |
ISBN | : 9781604732764 |
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The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild
Author | : Octavia E. Butler |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2023-03-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1538765446 |
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In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together -- and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis). Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu -- until she meets Doro. The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.
Author | : Martin Japtok |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030466256 |
Download Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Human Contradictions in Octavia Butler’s Work continues the critical discussions of Butler’s work by offering a variety of theoretical perspectives and approaches to Butler’s text. This collection contains original essays that engage Butler’s series (Seed to Harvest, Xenogenesis, Parables), her stand-alone novels (Kindred and Fledgling), and her short stories. The essays explore new facets of Butler’s work and its relevance to philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, ethnic studies, women’s studies, religious studies, American studies, and U.S. history. The volume establishes new ways of reading this seminal figure in African American literature, science fiction, feminism, and popular culture.
Author | : Octavia E. Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781538753712 |
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One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali - a seemingly benevolent alien race -- intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. After learning all they could about Earth and its beings, the Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer, increased human strength, and they now want Lilith to lead her people back to Earth -- but salvation comes at a price. Hopeful and thought-provoking, this post-apocalyptic narrative deftly explores gender and race through the eyes of characters struggling to adapt during a pivotal time of crisis and change.
Author | : LaToya Jefferson-James |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2022-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793606714 |
Download New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogical essays that shed new light on the creative depths of Black women writers. On the one hand, some Black women writers have been heavily anthologized, they have more often than not been restricted by critical metanarratives. Some of their works have been lionized while others remain neglected. On the other hand, some Black women writers have been ignored and understudied. This collection corrects the gaps in our critical thinking about Black women writers by introducing them to a new generation of undergraduate and graduate students, and by presenting pedagogical essays to our colleagues currently working in the field.