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Octavia E. Butler
University of Illinois Press, 2016 Paper: 978-0-252-08216-0 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09910-6 | Cloth: 978-0-252-04066-5 Library of Congress Classification PS3552.U827Z57 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction. See other books on: African American authors | African American novelists | African American women authors | Science fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy See other titles from University of Illinois Press |
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Octavia E. Butler
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Illinois Press, 2016
Paper: 978-0-252-08216-0
eISBN: 978-0-252-09910-6
Cloth: 978-0-252-04066-5
Paper: 978-0-252-08216-0
eISBN: 978-0-252-09910-6
Cloth: 978-0-252-04066-5
"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction.
Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
