Blood, genes and gender in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Dawn.

From: Extrapolation | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Jesser, Nancy | Copyright information

* For feminist critics eager to claim the most prominent African-American woman writer of science fiction as one of their own, Octavia Butler is both a heroine and problem child. Butler herself has proclaimed herself a feminist. So what could be the problem? Donna Haraway points to her as an exemplar of cyborg writing whose heroines are pioneer cyborgs. In addition, both African-American and feminist literary critics have long seen her novels as crucial in opening up spaces for Afr...

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