Octavia E. Butler by Canavan, Gerry

Octavia E. Butler

"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life...
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Author: Gerry Canavan
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Octavia E. Butler by Canavan, Gerry

Octavia E. Butler

$78.90

Octavia E. Butler

$78.90
Author: Gerry Canavan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction.

Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction.



Author: Gerry Canavan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 10/31/2016
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780252082160


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 10/31/2016
Shelf Awareness 11/18/2016

About the Author
Gerry Canavan is an assistant professor of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature at Marquette University. He is a coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction .


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