Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction Novels
Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
Rites of Passage African American science fiction Liminality Octavia Butler Black Women Writers Victor Turner science fiction- 1–8 Introduction 1–8
- 19–40 Patternist 19–40
- 41–56 Xenogenesis 41–56
- 57–72 Parables 57–72
- 73–90 Fledgling1 73–90
- 91–94 Bibliography 91–94
- 95–98 Index 95–98
- 99–100 About the Author 99–100