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: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Chicago, Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Series:Modern masters of science fiction.
Subjects:
Butler, Octavia E.
Butler, Octavia E. > 1947-2006
American fiction > African American authors > Biography.
African American novelists > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
African American novelists
American fiction > African American authors
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
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) / by Octavia E. Butler.

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