The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler (9781350079632)

Octavia E. Butler is widely recognised today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler's complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author's work, including:

* Cyborgs and the posthuman
* Race and African American history
* Afrofuturism
* Gender and sexuality
* New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies
* New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington Library

The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 432 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 234mm
• Publication date 19 Mar 2020
• Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 7 bw illus
• ISBN10 1350079634
• ISBN13 9781350079632

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