Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

by Lin Knutson

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 1666903108

ISBN-13 9781666903102

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 13th, 2023

Print length 110 Pages

Weight 345 grams

Dimensions 23.70 x 15.60 x 1.40 cms

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This book explores the ways in which Butler’s protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through liminality, they engage in psychological, physical, and social transformations that increase their empowerment.

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in exile from their home communities. During this process, they engage in psychological, physical, political, and social transitions through what Victor Turner and Makhail Bakhtin describe as carnivalesque identities. Using postcolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, and African American theorists, Lin Knutson examines how Butler’s imagined genesis and history carry echoes of American history, slave history, debt slavery, and colonization.

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