Conversations with Octavia Butler // (Literary Conversations)

Conversations with Octavia Butler // (Literary Conversations)

Octavia E. Butler • University Press of Mississippi

ISBN-10: 1604732768 · ISBN-13: 978‑1604732764 · 2010

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Further Details Title: Conversations with Octavia Butler Condition: New Author: Conseula Francis Contributor: Conseula Francis (Edited by) Format: Paperback EAN: 9781604732764 ISBN: 9781604732764 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships Release Date: 12/30/2009 Description: Octavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific career as the only major black female author of science fiction. Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards as well as a MacArthur ""genius"" grant, the first for a science fiction writer, Butler created worlds that challenged notions of race, sex, gender, and humanity. Whether in the postapocalyptic future of the Parable stories, in the human inability to assimilate change and difference in the Xenogenesis books, or in the destructive sense of superiority in the Patternist series, Butler held up a mirror, reflecting what is beautiful, corrupt, worthwhile, and damning about the world we inhabit. In interviews ranging from 1980 until just before her sudden death in 2006, Conversations with Octavia Butler reveals a writer very much aware of herself as the ""rare bird"" of science fiction even as she shows frustration with the constant question,""How does it feel to be the only one?"" Whether discussing humanity's biological imperatives or the difference between science fiction and fantasy or the plight of the working poor in America, Butler emerges in these interviews as funny, intelligent, complicated, and intensely original. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 16mm Item Weight: 384g Series: Literary Conversations Series Release Year: 2009 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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