Octavia Butler & science fiction -- Kindred: history, revision, and (re)memory of bodies -- Wildseed: the paradox of bodily inscriptions -- Patternmaster: hierarchies of identity -- Discussing duality and the chthonic: Octavia Butler, Wole Soyinka, & W.E.B Du Bois -- Religious science fiction: Butler's changing God -- Migration of the hybrid body -- Vampires and Utopia: reading racial and gender politics in the fiction of Butler -- Vast frontiers.
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