Semper Shame: Reading Octavia Butler's Kindred and Fledgling.
This article reads the two standalone novels by Octavia Butler, Kindred and Fledgling, through the theoretical lens of shame. Through my close readings of the texts, I argue that the affect of shame, as it brings emotional and physical pain to the victims, is also indispensable to the survival of hu...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 551 - 571 |
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University of California Press
Nov2019
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