Recently added articles from Utopian Studies:
Editorial.
Jun 22, 2008; Curtis, Claire ... Octavia Butler died in February of 2006; she left behind a body of work exploring the impulse toward utopia and the potential for dystopia. This special issue of Utopian Studies is devoted to her work, which is still too little studied--especially by scholars of utopia. (Ritch Calvin's ...
The certainty of the flesh: Octavia Butler's use of the erotic in the Xenogenesis trilogy.
Jun 22, 2008; Belk, Nolan ... Personally, I find utopias ridiculous. We're not going to have a perfect human society until we get a few perfect humans, and that seems unlikely. Octavia Butler Introduction In the great Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and a dozen or so friends set out to ...
"Every age has the vampire it needs": Octavia Butler's vampiric vision in Fledgling.
Jun 22, 2008; Brox, Ali ... In both movies and novels, the "traditional" vampire is often presented as the "other" who threatens humanity. A white male who penetrates both society and the bodies of his victims, this vampire represents the "queered" or Othered because he embodies the fears and anxieties of the society ...
Theorizing fear: Octavia Butler and the realist utopia.
Jun 22, 2008; Curtis, Claire P. ... "Again, men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great deal of grief, in keeping company where there is no power able to overawe them all." (Hobbes 75) "It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and ...
Diversity, change, violence: Octavia Butler's pedagogical philosophy.
Jun 22, 2008; Outterson, Sarah ... The deliberate and relentless depiction of violence in Octavia Butler's science fiction is striking. Her books are full of conflict that ranges from nuclear war to suburban looting, child abuse to concentration-camp slavery, self-defense to deliberate genocide. Within this violent world, ...
Of gifted children and gated communities: Paul Theroux's O-Zone and Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower.
Jun 22, 2008; Texter, Douglas W. ... Skywalker began his life as a slave on Tatooine, cared for by his mother, Shmi Skywalker, and owned by a Toydarian spare-parts dealer named Watto. It was obvious from the beginning that he was unusual and gifted: his mother claimed that she had experienced a virgin birth for Anakin, and ...
An Octavia E. Butler bibliography (1976-2008).
Jun 22, 2008; Calvin, Ritch ... The last significant bibliography of works by and about Octavia Butler was in 1984 (Weixlmann). In the twenty-four years since then, Butler herself produced a great many works, but--even more significantly--a veritable cottage industry seems to have grown up around her work. And since her ...
H. G. Wells: a political life.
Jun 22, 2008; Partington, John S. ... HG. Wells was born into a struggling lower-middle-class family on September 21, 1866 at Atlas House, High Street, in Bromley, Kent. He had two brothers, Frank (1857-1933) and Fred (1862-1954), and a sister, Fanny (1855-1864), who died before he was born. His father, Joseph Wells ...
