{"product_id":"9783030466244","title":"Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Contradictions in Octavia Butler's Work\u003c\/i\u003e 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 (\u003ci\u003eSeed to Harvest, Xenogenesis, Parables\u003c\/i\u003e), her stand-alone novels (\u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFledgling\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eIntroduction Jerry Rafiki Jenkins and Martin Japtok.- The Somatopic Black Female Body within Archipelagic Space and Time in Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eWild Seed\u003c\/i\u003e Regina Hamilton.- Contextualizing Escape in the Neo-Slave Narratives of Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e and Sherley Anne Williams' \u003ci\u003eDessa Rose\u003c\/i\u003e   Allison E. Francis.- (Dis)abling Normalcy: Octavia Butler's Critique of Disability in \u003ci\u003eKindred \u003c\/i\u003eHillary Weiss.- Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Human in Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eXenogenesis\u003c\/i\u003e Jerry Rafiki Jenkins.- \"But all we really know that we have is the flesh\": Body-Knowledge, Mulatto Genomics, and Reproductive Futurities in Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eXenogenesis\u003c\/i\u003e K.A. Vado.- \"Your Body Has Made a Different Choice\": Troubling Issues of Consent in \u003ci\u003eDawn \u003c\/i\u003eJoshua Yu Burnett.- What Is \"Love\"? -Octavia Butler's \"Bloodchild\" Martin Japtok.- \"Accept the Risk\": Octavia Butler's \"Bloodchild\" and Institutional Power Beth A. McCoy.- \"Learn or Die\": Survival and Anarchy in Octavia Butler's\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower \u003c\/i\u003eStefanie Dunning.- Survival by any Means: Race and Gender, Passing and Performance in \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParable of the Talents \u003c\/i\u003eMicah Moreno.- Beyond Science Fiction: Genre in \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e and Butler's Short Stories Heather Duerre Humann.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMartin Japtok\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Palomar College, USA, and has authored \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), edited \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Perspectives on Women Writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S.\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), and co-edited \u003ci\u003eAuthentic Blackness\/\"Real\" Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2011) .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJerry Rafiki Jenkins\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Palomar College, USA, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAuthentic Blackness\/\"Real\" Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2011).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403788775735,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":758.46,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9783030466244-1.jpg?v=1783262243","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9783030466244","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}