Fledgling: Octavia E. Butler's extraordinary final novel

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Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2010. ISBN 0739137875 (10). ISBN 978-0739137871 (13). Hayward, Philip, ed. (2004). Off the Planet. John Libbey Publishing. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt2005s0z. ISBN 978-0-86196-938-8. While staying at Wright's uncle's cabin, Shori realizes she's in need of more blood, so she feeds on other inhabitants in the town and develops a relationship with an older woman named Theodora. Shori and Wright return to the burned-out, abandoned village near where she woke up to learn more about her past. They eventually meet Iosif, Shori's father, who tells her the burned-out town was once her home where she had lived with her mother and sisters. They also learn that Wright and Shori's mutually beneficial relationship makes Wright Shori's symbiont. Further, Shori's dark skin is the result of a genetic modification: the Ina were experimenting to make their kind resistant to daylight. All other Ina are white-skinned. Pfeiffer, John R. "Butler, Octavia Estelle (b. 1947)", in Richard Bleiler (ed.), Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. 2nd edn. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 147–158.

City Lights Bookshop (2022). "Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1986". Commons Social Change Library. a b c d e Brox, Ali. "Every age has the vampire it needs": Octavia Butler's Vampiric Vision in Fledgling." Utopian Studies 19.3 (2008): 391-409. This was a bit of vampire theater. I knew it, and I was fairly sure she knew it, too. She had probably been brushing up on vampires recently. Of course, I didn’t need permission to enter her home or anyone else’s.Levecq, Christine, "Power and Repetition: Philosophies of (Literary) History in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred". Contemporary Literature 41.3 (2000 Spring): 525–553. JSTOR 1208895. doi: 10.2307/1208895.

Calvin, Ritch. "An Octavia E. Butler Bibliography (1976–2008)", Utopian Studies 19.3 (2008): 485–516. JSTOR 20719922.The explicit yet playful sexual content found in her models, the books of the Anita Blake series, takes on a steely patina of matter-of-fact controversy in Octavia’s clear, steady gaze. Shori appears only twelve years old to her first human target, Wright Hamlin, though she accosts him with all the self-assuredness of her actual 53 years. She takes his blood slowly, and gives him “as much pleasure as [she can].” I know of at least one dedicated fan of Octavia’s work who refused to read beyond that scene.

You’re bright,’ Lupe said to her softly. ‘Very bright, but stubborn. You think you can choose yourrealities. You can’t.’” Bloodchild and Other StoriesToday brings word of another Butler adaptation in the works: HBO Max is adapting her vampire novel Fledgling for a series. the desire/fantasy this book portrays so effectively is that of total control over the love object, if not, possibly, over love itself. i submit that this is the desire/fantasy of those whose sexuality is chronically disempowered – queer people, women, who else? vampires cannot help reciprocating their humans’ love, but making this love authentic rather than exploitative is entirely a matter of ethical upbringing and ethical choices. shori, for instance, has to do violence to herself, at first, to allow herself to learn from her symbionts, some of whom have been living in vampire families for a long time and know way more about her people than she does. her willingness to treat her symbionts as equal is depicted as an act of great respect and humility on her part. Aside from their unusual relationships with humans, the Ina is quite ordinary. Steven Shaviro describes them as having "a culture, with laws and customs, kinship groups, a religion and ethics and a politics, and disputes and power struggles about all these things—just as any group of human beings does". [10] Butler even renders the Ina less than perfect in that they are prone to the intolerance and bigotry usually reserved for humans. [5] Race [ edit ] Randall Kenan, "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler", Callaloo 14.2. 1991, pp.495–505. JSTOR 2931654. doi: 10.2307/2931654.

this review has spoilers that will do irreversible damage to those who have not read the book, is long, and is, i'm afraid, rather academic in tone, because i just think that way. be warned. *** Devil Girl from Mars: Why I Write Science Fiction", Media in Transition (MIT February 19, 1998; Transcript October 4, 1998)In 1983, Butler published "Speech Sounds", a story set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where a pandemic has caused most humans to lose their ability to read, speak, or write. For many, this impairment is accompanied by uncontrollable feelings of jealousy, resentment, and rage. "Speech Sounds" received the 1984 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. [23] Dubey, Madhu. "Octavia Butler's Novels of Enslavement." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 46.3 (2013): 345–363. Octavia E. Butler, reading her description of herself included in Parable of the Sower, during a 1994 interview with Jelani Cobb Award Shortlists". Arthur C. Clarke Award. April 21, 2011. Archived from the original on November 4, 2018 . Retrieved November 12, 2018. A complete bibliography of Butler's work was compiled in 2008 by Calvin Ritch. [97] Novels [ edit ]