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Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 314 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 226x152x15 mm, kaal: 440 g, Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2013
  • Kirjastus: Aqueduct Press
  • ISBN-10: 1619760371
  • ISBN-13: 9781619760370
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 314 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 226x152x15 mm, kaal: 440 g, Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2013
  • Kirjastus: Aqueduct Press
  • ISBN-10: 1619760371
  • ISBN-13: 9781619760370
Collects reminiscences and personal essays, poems, correspondence, photographs, and interviews of Octavia Butler and her works, discussing how she changed the genre of science fiction and helped empower other writers.

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Short-listed for Locus Awards (Nonfiction) 2014.
Introduction: Strange Matings and Their Progeny: A Legacy of Conversations, Thoughts, Writings, and Actions 1(16)
Rebecca J. Holden
Nisi Shawl
Excerpt 1 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
11(6)
Part One Patterns of Kinship: On Butler's Patternist series and Kindred
"I began writing about power because I had so little": The Impact of Octavia Butler's Early Work on Feminist Science Fiction as a Whole (and on One Feminist Science Fiction Scholar in Particular)
17(28)
Rebecca J. Holden
Mary's Children (syfy poem for Octavia)
45(6)
Doris Davenport
Excerpt 2 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
48(3)
"Gambling Against History": Queer Kinship and Cruel Optimism in Octavia Butler's Kindred
51(28)
Susan Knabe
Wendy Gay Pearson
Sunday Morning
79(3)
JT Stewart
"Sun Woman" or "Wild Seed"? How a Young Feminist Writer Found Alternatives to White Bourgeois Narrative Models in the Early Novels of Octavia Butler
82(14)
L. Timmel Duchamp
The Spirit in the Seed
96(9)
Luisah Teish
Part Two Tendencies Towards Hierarchicalism and the Breakdown of Society: Butler in the 1980s
Near and Dear
105(4)
Steven Barnes
Disparate Spirits Yet Kindred Souls: Octavia E. Butler, "Speech Sounds," and Me
109(23)
Sandra Y. Govan
Excerpt 3 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler
128(4)
Positive Impact: Growing (Up) with Octavia E. Butler
132(8)
Candra K. Gill
"We Get to Live, and So Do They": Octavia Butler's Contact Zones
140(30)
Thomas Foster
Part Three The Parables: Approaching the Millennium with Butler
Excerpt 4 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
170(3)
Fun, Fun, Fun
173(9)
Merrilee Heifetz
On Re-Reading Parable of the Sower
182(4)
Kate Schaefer
"A New Fashion in Faith": The Parable Novels in Conversation with Actual Intentional Communities
186(22)
Lisbeth Gant-Britton
The Third Parable
208(8)
Nisi Shawl
Part Four New Media, New Generations, and a New Take on Vampires: Butler in the Twenty-First Century
butler.net 8star@qwest
216(5)
Nnedi Okorafor
Exceeding the Human: Power and Vulnerability in Octavia Butler's Fiction
221(12)
Steven Shaviro
On Octavia E. Butler
233(4)
Tananarive Due
From "Hierarchical Behavior" to Strategic Amnesia: Fledgling as Insight into the Structures of Memory and Forgetting in Octavia Butler's Work
237(29)
Shari Evans
Excerpt 5 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
263(3)
Goodbye My Hero
266(8)
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Annotated Bibliography of Butler's Fiction 274(14)
Biographical Timeline of Butler 288(5)
Bibliography 293(15)
Contributor Biographies 308