Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels
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2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0310-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0310-2 (ISBN)
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.
Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in exile from their home communities. During this process, they engage in psychological, physical, political, and social transitions through what Victor Turner and Makhail Bakhtin describe as carnivalesque identities. Using postcolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, and African American theorists, Lin Knutson examines how Butler’s imagined genesis and history carry echoes of American history, slave history, debt slavery, and colonization.
Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in exile from their home communities. During this process, they engage in psychological, physical, political, and social transitions through what Victor Turner and Makhail Bakhtin describe as carnivalesque identities. Using postcolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, and African American theorists, Lin Knutson examines how Butler’s imagined genesis and history carry echoes of American history, slave history, debt slavery, and colonization.
Lin Knutson is associate professor at Mississippi Valley State University.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Rites of Passage
Chapter 2: Patternist
Chapter 3: Xenogenesis
Chapter 4: Parable
Chapter 5: Fledgling
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 345 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-0310-8 / 1666903108 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-0310-2 / 9781666903102 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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