Taking Out the Trash: Octavia E. Butler's Wild Seed and the Feminist Voice in American SF

In a sense, Octavia Butler's science fiction is a part of that new scenario, featuring strong female protagonists who shape the course of social events...Tracing the plight of each heroine is like following different variations on a single theme, the yearning for independence and autonomy. Simi...

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Published in:Femspec (Cleveland, Ohio) Ohio), 2005-12, Vol.6 (2), p.6
Main Author: Deman, J Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Baudrillard, Jean
Butler, Octavia E
Females
Feminism
Fiction
Literary criticism
Science fiction & fantasy
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Stereotypes
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Summary:In a sense, Octavia Butler's science fiction is a part of that new scenario, featuring strong female protagonists who shape the course of social events...Tracing the plight of each heroine is like following different variations on a single theme, the yearning for independence and autonomy. Similarly, in creating Anyanwu within the genre of science fiction, in playing off of the prior stereotypical constructions of women in science fiction, Butler achieves the same kind of inclusion for the strong female character in the science fiction novel.
ISSN:1523-4002