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$10.50The Story
An homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler.
Bringing to view a selection of Butler's unpublished writings and drawings, this book traces her fascination with human-alien symbiosis to her early empathy with horses and other marginalized creatures. The figure of the horse, at once earthly and transcendent, represented the contradictions of freedom and captivity that enabled young Octavia to develop her nuanced sense of voice and place.Drawing on previously unknown archival research, with much of the source material within The Huntington's Octavia E. Butler archive, this volume illustrates how Butler's development as a writer was tied to her extraordinary resourcefulness and self-awareness growing up as an awkward, bookish Black girl in segregated, Cold War Pasadena.
It is part childhood biography, art, and literary analysis, and memoir.
- 289 pages
- Hardcover
Description
An homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler.
Bringing to view a selection of Butler's unpublished writings and drawings, this book traces her fascination with human-alien symbiosis to her early empathy with horses and other marginalized creatures. The figure of the horse, at once earthly and transcendent, represented the contradictions of freedom and captivity that enabled young Octavia to develop her nuanced sense of voice and place.Drawing on previously unknown archival research, with much of the source material within The Huntington's Octavia E. Butler archive, this volume illustrates how Butler's development as a writer was tied to her extraordinary resourcefulness and self-awareness growing up as an awkward, bookish Black girl in segregated, Cold War Pasadena.
It is part childhood biography, art, and literary analysis, and memoir.
- 289 pages
- Hardcover
