Sparks from the Tail of a Comet: Historical Materialism and Genetic Imperialism in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Novels
Through a close reading of Octavia Butler’s Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989), this article examines how implicitly decolonialist science fiction is shaped by the socio-historical context of the Cold War. Writing against notions of American exceptionalism, Butler’s tacit critique...
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University of Bucharest
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Intersections |
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| Online Access: | http://www.intersections-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Sandra-Cox-article.pdf |