The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

"Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler's complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author's work, including: ʺ Cyborgs and the posthuman ʺ Race and African American history ʺ Afrofuturism ʺ Gender and sexuality ʺ New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies ʺ New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington Library The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due."-- Provided by publisher Cover Contents List of Ill ustrations Contributors Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Gregory J. Hampton and Kendra R. Parker PART ONE: DAWN 1 What Octavia E. Butler Feared Most about Human Nature Steven Barnes 2 “I want to live forever and breed people!”: The Legacy of a Fantasy Heather Thaxter 3 Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia E. Butler’s “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” Sami Schalk 4 Problematizing Consent in the Posthuman Era: Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild” and “Amnesty” Joe Heidenescher PART TWO: ADULTHOOD RITES 5 “I’m not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking”:Tracing Vampirism in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy Kendra R. Parker 6 Becoming Posthuman: The Sexualized, Racialized, and Naturalized Others of Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood Kitty Dunkley 7 Teaching the “Other” of Colonialism: The Mimic (Wo)Men of Xenogenesis Aparajita Nanda 8 Octavia E. Butler’s Discourse on Colonialism and Identity:Dis/eased Identity in “Bloodchild,” Dawn, and Survivor Gregory Jerome Hampton PART THREE: IMAGO 9 Visualizing Dana and Transhistorical Time Travel on the Covers of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred Christine Montgomery and Ellen C. Caldwell 10 Apocalypse, Afrofutures, and Theories of “the Living” beyond Human Rights: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Series Chriss Sneed 11 Trauma, Technology, and the Trickster: Reading Octavia E. Butler’s Unfinished Trilogy Ji Hyun Lee 12 The Pregnant Man Story: Echoes of Octavia E. Butler’s Themes of Reproductive Anxiety in Fan Writing Heather Osborne 13 A Space for Discomfort: Octavia E. Butler and the Pedagogy of the Taboo Aryn Bartley 14 Finding the Superhero in Damian Duffy’s and John Jennings’s Graphic Novel Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Science-Fiction-Postmodern-Slave-Narrative, Kindred Forrest Yerman Afterword Tananarive Due Index