Article ID: CBB001034741

“Some Matching Strangeness”: Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler's Kindred (2010)

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Robertson, Benjamin (Author)


Science-Fiction Studies
Volume: 37
Pages: 362--381


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: First article in a special issue on Octavia E. Butler
Language: English

Description Contents:


Includes Series Articles

Article Johns, Adam J. (2010) Becoming Medusa: Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood. Science-Fiction Studies (p. 382). unapi

Article Ferreira, Maria Aline (2010) Symbiotic Bodies and Evolutionary Tropes in the Work of Octavia Butler. Science-Fiction Studies (p. 401). unapi

Article Fink, Marty (2010) AIDS Vampires: Reimagining Illness in Octavia Butler's Fledgling. Science-Fiction Studies (p. 416). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Engelmann, Lukas
Bardini, Thierry
Bollinge, Laurel
Cooter, Roger J.
Duffy, Enda
Duncan, Ian
Journals
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Gender and History
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
University of Minnesota Press
University of Pennsylvania
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
D.S. Brewer
Routledge
Concepts
Science and literature
Science fiction
Evolution
Biology
Medicine and culture
AIDS (disease); HIV/AIDS
People
Wells, Herbert George
Butler, Octavia Estelle
Eliot, George
Ballard, J. G.
Burroughs, William
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Africa
Poland
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
England
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