![]() ![]() Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she ?nds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. This 1st volume in the Library of America edition of Butler s collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists I wrote myself in, she would later recall -establishing herself as one of thepioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. ![]() Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. ![]() Childfinder Crossover Near of Kin Speech Sounds Bloodchild Amnesty Book of Martha The Evening and the Morning and the Night - Essays include: Lost Races of Science Fiction Positive Obsession Furor Scribendi The Monophobic Response Preface to Bloodchild and Other Stories - Chronology Notes on the Text Notes, -"An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. hardcover, a Fine example, unread, in a Fine dustjacket, 774 pages, this includes: Kindred, Fledgling, and the following storie. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (see description). ![]()
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