Life of Octavia Hill: As Told in Her Letters (Classic Reprint), Hill Octavia

Автор: Octavia E. Butler
Название: Kindred
ISBN: 1472214811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472214812
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 9100.00 T
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Описание: A modern black woman is transported to 19th century Maryland, where she faces the cruel realities of slavery. Kindred, Octavia E. Butler`s masterpiece, is an essential read and `a shattering work of art` (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner).

Автор: Hampton Gregory Jerome
Название: Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires
ISBN: 0739193031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739193037
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 43560.00 T
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Описание: Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond to Butler's fiction. The study asserts that Butler's fiction transforms the way the body is imagined with reference to race and gender. This text examines how Butler's fiction is able to cross several genre boundaries while simultaneously reshaping the genre of science fiction. This book makes the claim that Butler's fiction is crucial for contemporary and future investigations of identity formation. Discussions of race, class, and sex are reoccurring topic that are inextricable to any understanding of body politics and theory. This book is filled with exciting and insightful discussions that raise questions about what constitutes humanity in Butler's fiction and in the real world. Ultimately, the purpose of the text is to add to the scholarship surrounding Butler and to bring her to the attention of audiences that might otherwise overlook her work. This book is an invitation for readers inside and outside of the academy to discover the fiction of Octavia Butler.

Автор: Seneca
Название: Four Tragedies and Octavia
ISBN: 0140441743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140441741
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: Dramas by the classical playwright and philosopher are accompanied by a modern work to demonstrate the Roman`s impact on the development of the tragedy.