Octavia E. Butler

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"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 dep...

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Main Author: Canavan, Gerry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:Modern masters of science fiction.
Subjects:
Butler, Octavia E.
American fiction > African American authors > Biography.
Science fiction > Women authors > Biography.
African American novelists > Biography.
African American women authors > Biography.
African American novelists.
African American women authors.
American fiction > African American authors.
Science fiction > Women authors.
American fiction.
Science fiction.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: beginning at the end
  • Childfinder (1947-1971)
  • Psychogenesis (1971-1976)
  • To keep thee in all thy ways (1976-1980)
  • Blindsight (1980-1987)
  • The training floor (1987-1989)
  • God of clay (1989-2006)
  • Paraclete (1999-2006)
  • Conclusion: unexpected stories
  • Appendix: "lost races of science fiction" (1980) / Octavia E. Butler.

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