Lin Knutson

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction Novels (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666903119
• Artikelnr.: 67539441

Autorenporträt

Lin Knutson is associate professor at Mississippi Valley State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Rites of Passage
Chapter 2: Patternist
Chapter 3: Xenogenesis
Chapter 4: Parable
Chapter 5: Fledgling
Bibliography
About the Author