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18. März 2020 · Octavia E Butler challenged gender stereotypes in her work – she started writing sci-fi to escape her situation. Like much of her writing, Butler’s book was a warning about where the US and...
24. Juli 2020 · Through her writing, Butler challenged gender stereotypes in American fiction, white privilege in their narratives, and racism in her profession. She helped reshape the genre of science fiction by offering grounded, naturalistic stories in which characters like herself could flourish.
7. Apr. 2022 · In the early 1990s, African American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler (1947–2006) observed in an interview that she had “three fairly distinct audiences: feminists, SF fans, and black readers” (Butler 1990, 54).
- Maria Holmgren Troy
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As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards African Americans, global warming, women’s rights, and political disparity. Her books are now taught in schools and universities across the U.S.
9. Dez. 2021 · The only child of a shoeshine man and a housemaid, Octavia Estelle Butler was raised in the racially integrated city of Pasadena, California. Her childhood memories consisted of blatant racism, frequent bullying, and a firm conviction that she was “ugly and stupid, clumsy and socially hopeless.”
Octavia Butler’s widely acclaimed novels, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) are overtly feminist in nature and speak directly to Butler’s understanding of America’s racially divided past and her concerns for its future.
simultaneously symbolized the mixing of gendered, sexual, and racial ‘identities, bodies, bloodlines, and border,’ making the vampire a prime figure to challenge and ultimately destabilize categories of race, gender, and sexuality that underlie hegemonic societal structures”
