Octavia E. Butler /

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Author / Creator:Canavan, Gerry, author.
Imprint:Urbana, Chicago, Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 225 pages).
Language:English
Series:Modern Masters of Science Fiction
Modern masters of science fiction.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11307191
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ISBN:9780252099106
0252099109
9780252040665
025204066X
0252082168
9780252082160
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction."--Publisher's description.
Other form:Print version: Canavan, Gerry. Octavia E. Butler. Urbana, Chicago, Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2016 9780252040665