Rites Of Passage Liminality And Community In Octavia E Butler S Science Fiction Novels

Author : Lin Knutson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666903119

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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels by Lin Knutson Pdf

This book explores the ways in which Butler’s protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through liminality, they engage in psychological, physical, and social transformations that increase their empowerment.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538765470

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Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their salvation comes at a cost. The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species—rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies—is destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the two races to produce a new hybrid species—and they will not tolerate rebellion. Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races' future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.

Author : Alexei Panshin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0283980532

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Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin Pdf

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446603783

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Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

Told in the haunting voice of Lilith, the heroine of "Dawn", this book is thestory of Lilith's only son, Akin. Though he resembles a normal human, Akin isthe first "construct"--part man/part alien.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African American women
ISBN : 1609807219

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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

A collector's edition box-set of two of Octavia E. Butler's most visionary science-fiction novels. Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman in 2015, Lauren Olamina, who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. Its sequel, Parable of the Talents, follows Lauren's daughter, living in a war-torn continent with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency. Together these books present a dystopian landscape about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609807191

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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of "hyperempathy"—which causes her to feel others’ pain as her own—sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African American authors
ISBN : 1604732768

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Conversations with Octavia Butler by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538765449

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Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together -- and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis). Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu -- until she meets Doro. The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1538753715

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Dawn by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali - a seemingly benevolent alien race -- intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. After learning all they could about Earth and its beings, the Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer, increased human strength, and they now want Lilith to lead her people back to Earth -- but salvation comes at a price. Hopeful and thought-provoking, this post-apocalyptic narrative deftly explores gender and race through the eyes of characters struggling to adapt during a pivotal time of crisis and change.

Author : Martin Japtok,Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030466251

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Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work by Martin Japtok,Jerry Rafiki Jenkins Pdf

Human Contradictions in Octavia Butler’s Work continues the critical discussions of Butler’s work by offering a variety of theoretical perspectives and approaches to Butler’s text. This collection contains original essays that engage Butler’s series (Seed to Harvest, Xenogenesis, Parables), her stand-alone novels (Kindred and Fledgling), and her short stories. The essays explore new facets of Butler’s work and its relevance to philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, ethnic studies, women’s studies, religious studies, American studies, and U.S. history. The volume establishes new ways of reading this seminal figure in African American literature, science fiction, feminism, and popular culture.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538765432

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Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

A young woman harnesses her newfound power to challenge the ruthless man who controls her, in this brilliant and provocative novel from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like telepathy and breeding them into a new subrace of humans who obey his every command. The result is Mary: a young black woman living on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles in the 1970s, who has no idea how much power she will soon wield. Doro knows he must handle Mary carefully or risk her ending like his previous experiments: dead, either by her own hand or Doro's. What he doesn't suspect is that Mary's maturing telepathic abilities may soon rival his own power. By linking telepaths with a viral pattern, she will create the potential to break free of his control once and for all-and shift the course of humanity.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538765487

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Imago by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind. Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race -- the Oankali -- who saved them from near-certain extinction. The Oankalis' greatest skill lies in the species' ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic code. Now, for the first time in the humans' relationship with the Oankali, a human mother has given birth to an ooloi child: Jodahs. Throughout his childhood, Jodahs seemed to be a male human-alien hybrid. But when he reaches adolescence, Jodahs develops the ooloi abilities to shapeshift, manipulate DNA, cure and create disease, and more. Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and unite what's left of humankind -- or become the biggest threat to their survival.

Author : Frances Smith Foster
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299142140

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Witnessing Slavery by Frances Smith Foster Pdf

**** New edition of the Greenwood Press original of 1979 (which is cited in BCL3), with a new introduction, chapter, and a supplementary bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Monica Byrne
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063002913

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The Actual Star by Monica Byrne Pdf

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we’re going—and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together. "A stone-cold masterpiece."—New Scientist The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents—telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle. Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne of a Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the leadership of a new religion, racing toward a confrontation that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change. In each era, a reincarnated trinity of souls navigates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, and love and hate—until all of their age-old questions about the nature of existence converge deep underground, where only in complete darkness can they truly see.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781583228036

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Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is "The Book of Martha" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability—and responsibility—to save humanity from itself? Like all of Octavia Butler’s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices.