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Article: Octavia Butler's chiastic cannibalistics (1). (Essays on Octavia Butler).
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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OCTAVIA BUTLER'S MAJOR NOVELS address situated, embodied intelligence in the modern and postmodern world, illustrating the response of a contemporary black woman writer to her world, and resisting orthodoxies, including those of feminism and anti-racism. Critical attention on Butler has explicated her approaches to difference or otherness, her particular focus on race and gender in particular, and her reimagination of women's cultural and narrative roles. Still, two largely unexplored features of Butler's narratives could shed additional light on her representational strategies and the positions her characters take in the world: cannibalism and rhetoric. In this essay, I ...