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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in exile from their home communities. During this process, they engage in psychological, physical, political, and social transitions through what Victor Turner and Makhail Bakhtin describe as carnivalesque identities. Using postcolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, and African American theorists, Lin Knutson examines how Butler’s imagined genesis and history carry echoes of American history, slave history, debt slavery, and colonization.



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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Rites of Passage

Chapter 2: Patternist

Chapter 3: Xenogenesis

Chapter 4: Parable

Chapter 5: Fledgling

Bibliography

About the Author

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      Publisher: Lexington Books
      Publication Date: 15/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9781666903102, 978-1666903102
      ISBN10: 1666903108

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in exile from their home communities. During this process, they engage in psychological, physical, political, and social transitions through what Victor Turner and Makhail Bakhtin describe as carnivalesque identities. Using postcolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, and African American theorists, Lin Knutson examines how Butler’s imagined genesis and history carry echoes of American history, slave history, debt slavery, and colonization.



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Rites of Passage

      Chapter 2: Patternist

      Chapter 3: Xenogenesis

      Chapter 4: Parable

      Chapter 5: Fledgling

      Bibliography

      About the Author

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