Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler

Overview:

  • Title: Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler
  • Author: Nisi Shawl, Rebecca J. Holden
  • Year: 2013
  • ISBN-10: 9781619760370
  • Publisher: Aqueduct Press
  • Price: $20.00
  • Pages: iv+314
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler
  • Notes:
    • First printing by number line.
    • Cover image is titled "Call for Strange Matings".
    • The ToC listing for "[email protected]" is messed up. (butler.net 8star@quest). "Octavia E. Butler Biographical Timeline" is incorrectly called "Biographical Timeline of Butler" in the ToC.
    • The ToC is divided into four parts:
      1. (pp. 17-102) Patterns of Kinship: On Butler's Patternist Series and Kindred
      2. (pp. 103-169) Tendencies Towards Hierarchicalism and the Breakdown of Society: Butler in the 1980s
      3. (pp. 170-214) The Parables: Approaching the Millennium with Butler
      4. (pp. 215-273) New Media, New Generations, and a New Take on Vampires: Butler in the Twenty-First Century
    • Publication month from Amazon.