Luminescent Threads
Connections to Octavia E. Butler
ed. by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal ; with contr. by K. Tempest Bradford, Rasha Abdulhadi, Kathleen Kayembe ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

K. Tempest Bradford, Rasha Abdulhadi, Kathleen Kayembe, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Alexandra Pierce, Mimi Mondal

Publication

Yokine (WA) : Twelfth Planet, 2017

Scope

410 Pages, 20.5 cm.

ISBN

9781922101440

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Publication celebrating Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the Science Fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour. Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection, explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships, her complex treatment of race and identity, and her impact on feminism and women in Science Fiction. Luminescent threads connect Butler and her body of work to the many readers who have found inspiration in her words, and the complex universes she created.

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Keywords

science fiction , (in)equity , feminism

Location

Cabinet 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie

Remarks

incl. author's biographies