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Canavan, Gerry

Octavia E. Butler / Gerry Canavan. - Urbana, Chicago, Springfield, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2016 - 1 online resource (xviii, 225 pages) - Modern Masters of Science Fiction .

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Article Abstract: "Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction."--Publisher's description

ISBN: 0252099109 9780252099106

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Butler, Octavia E
Butler, Octavia E. 1947-2006
American fiction - African American authors - Biography
African American novelists - Biography
Roman am�ericain - Auteurs noirs am�ericains - Biographies
Romanciers noirs am�ericains - Biographies
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Historical
African American novelists
American fiction - African American authors

Dewey Class. No.: PS3552.U827 Z553 2016eb