Empathetic trappings: Revisiting the nineteenth century in Octavia Butler's Kindred
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DOI: 10.1080/14754835.2017.1313103
Abstract: ABSTRACT Octavia Butler's 1979 novel, Kindred, is a postmodern slave narrative that redefines the previous literary constructions of slavery in the United States. Through its rejection of the nineteenth century slave narrative and sentimental novel,… read more here.
Keywords: empathetic trappings; trappings revisiting; revisiting nineteenth; nineteenth century ... See more keywords
After Words: On Octavia Butler's “Speech Sounds”
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DOI: 10.1525/res.2020.1.4.462
Abstract: In this essay, artist Nikita Gale presents a reading of Octavia Butler’s short story Speech Sounds through the work of Edouard Glissant, Kate Lacey, Homi Bhabha, and Elaine Scarry. Gale considers the trauma of silence… read more here.
Keywords: butler speech; words octavia; octavia butler; speech sounds ... See more keywords