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product_id: 56738924
title: "Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler"
brand: "aqueduct press"
price: "VT11934"
currency: VUV
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category: "Paperback"
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# Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler

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- **What is this?** Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler by aqueduct press
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This anthology celebrates the work and exploring the influence and legacy of the brilliant Octavia E. Butler. Author Nisi Shawl and scholar Rebecca J. Holden have joined forces to bring together a mix of scholars and writers, each of whom values Butlers work in their own particular ways. As the editors write in their introduction: Strange Matings seeks to continue Butlers uncomfortable insights about humanity, and also to instigate new conversations about Butler and her work conversations that encourage academic voices to talk to the private voices, the poetic voices to answer the analytic How did her work affect conceptions of what science fiction is and could be? How did her portrayals of African Americans challenge accepted assumptions and affect others writing in the field? In what ways did her commitment to issues of race and gender express itself? How did this dual commitment affect the emerging field of overtly feminist science fiction? How did it affect the perception of her work? In what ways did Butler inspire other writers and change the face of science fiction? How did she queer science fiction? In what ways did she inspire us and motivate us take up

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