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Title:

Strange matings : science fiction, feminism, African American voices, and Octavia E. Butler / edited by Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl.

Publisher:

Aqueduct Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

iii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Butler, Octavia E.--Criticism and interpretation.
Science fiction, American--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans in literature.
American fiction--African American authors.

Other Authors:

Holden, Rebecca J., editor.
Shawl, Nisi, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Patterns of kinship: on Butler's Patternist series and Kindred -- Tendencies towards hierarchicalism and the breakdown of society: Butler in the 1980s -- The parables: approaching the millennium with Butler -- New media, new generations, and a new take on vampires: Butler in the twenty-first century.

ISBN:

9781619760370
1619760371

LCCN:

2013934568

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)