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1	"Give me that old time religion" reclaiming slave religion in the future / Bailey, Constance R. January 2007 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on May 11, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
2	The art of heterotopian rhetoric a theory of science fiction as rhetorical discourse / Graves, Robert Christopher Jason. January 2009 (has links) Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2009. / Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 148 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references.
3	Rape in feminist utopian and dystopian fiction Joanna Russ's The female man, Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale, and Octavia Butler's The parable of the sower and The parable of the talents / Llewellyn, Jana Diemer. January 2006 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2006. / English Dept. Includes bibliographical references.
4	Från boksidor till bildrutor : En adaptionsstudie av narratologiska förändringar i Octavia E. Butlers roman Tidens länkar Regnström, Gabriella January 2024 (has links) The study examines how narrative aspects change when a story is adapted from one medium to another, focusing on Octavia E. Butler's novel "Kindred" and the graphic novel "Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation" by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. The analysis compares these works based on four aspects: plot, time, narrator, and theme. The results show both similarities and differences between the novel and the graphic novel. While most of the central events in the plot were retained during the adaptation, there are significant differences in the handling of time and narrator, likely due to the requirements of the new medium. The theme shows similar patterns, where differences can be attributed to both the medium and the storyline. Furthermore, the study discusses how these adaptations can be used in education. By analyzing both the novel and the graphic novel, teachers can help students understand how different media-specific narrative elements are used to convey the same story in different ways. This can also contribute to including visual literacy in education, which is important for students' reading skills in today's media landscape. adaption narratologi Octavia E. Butler Tidens länkar Blodsband grafisk roman Didactics Didaktik
5	Galactic ecofeminism and posthuman transcendence : the tentative utopias of Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood Favreau, Alyssa 04 1900 (has links) No description available. Octavia E. Butler Lilith's Brood Xenogenesis posthumanisme posthumanism écoféminisme ecofeminism cyborg science fiction symbiogenesis symbiogenèse
6	Genom våra ögon : En komparativ litteraturanalys av Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid’s Tale och Octavia E. Butlers Kindred, utifrån forskningsfältet kulturella minnesstudier / Through Our Eyes : A comparative literary analysis of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, based on the research field of cultural memory studies Adolfsson, Linnea January 2018 (has links) This essay’s primarily focus is on the common discourse about the persisting effects of the past in the present in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale(1985)and Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979).These novels are the testimonies of the protagonists Offred and Dana who shares their experience of traumatic violence and oppression. Dana, with her ability to time travel, will see her present time in clearer light as she experiences the life of a slave on an antebellum plantation. Offred, the Handmaiden owned by the totalitarian regime Gilead, portrays her contemporary life in parallel to remembering her former and thus describing Gilead’s increasing authority. Based on different theorists and concepts in the field of cultural memory studies, this essay examines the tension between memory and history, the distantness towards the past and the problematics with representations of traumatic events. As I argue that the voices of Dana and Offred calls attention to the importance of perspective and of sharing stories, they are also an act of hope, therapy and resistance; an act that also make possible a critique of the processes of the production of historical knowledge. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Octavia E. Butler Kindred Memory History Cultural memory studies Trauma Representation Prosthetic Memory Multidirectional Memory General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap
7	Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas / Jones, Esther L. January 2006 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2011 Aug 15
8	Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction / Att bygga in problem? : Grindsamhällen i berättelser om klimat- och miljökatastrofer Walsh, Ryan Nicholas January 2023 (has links) The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. This thesis combines recent urban studies scholarship with ecocritical theory to analyse the gated communities present in Octavia E. Butler’s novels, The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents, Neil Blomkamp’s film, Elysium, and Naughty Dog’s video games, The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Part II. Comparative analysis of the motif in each primary narrative reveals how disaster exacerbates the security and segregation this mode of settlement makes possible, resulting in a pronounced Othering of outsiders to these communities. This essay concludes that the boundaries of these speculative gated communities come to symbolise the borders Global North, which rhetorically and physically exclude the migrant Other. As most of the gated communities in these narratives experience catastrophe and collapse at the hands of those they refuse to accept, the texts appear to warn us to expect similar results unless issues of climate justice are not addressed by the Global North today. / Grindsamhället (eng. gated community) är ett vanligt förekommande motiv i berättelser om klimat- och miljökatastrofer. Den här uppsatsen undersöker motivet i tre medietyper för att diskutera hur grindsamhället som samhällsform porträtteras i postapokalyptiskt spekulativ fiktion, och hur det ses svara på klimat- och miljö- krisernas hot och konsekvenser. Uppsatsen kombinerar ekokritisk teori med modern forskning inom urbana studier för att analysera grindsamhällen som förekommer i romanerna The Parable of the Sower och The Parable of the Talents av Octavia E. Butler, Neil Blomkamps film Elysium och Naughty Dogs datorspel The Last of Us och The Last of Us: Part II. Komparativ analys av motivet i de primära berättelserna ger vid handen hur katastrofer förvärrar den säkerhet och segregation som samhälls- formen möjliggör, vilket resulterar i en uttalad syn på personer utanför samhällena som Andra. Uppsatsen slår fast att gränserna för de spekulativa grindsamhällena sym- boliserar gränserna mellan det globala nord och syd, vilket retoriskt och fysiskt ute- stänger migranter från syd och konstruerar dem som Andra. Eftersom de flesta grindsamhällen i berättelserna drabbas av katastrof och kollaps på grund av de människor som man vägrar släppa in tycks texterna varna oss för att vi kan förvänta oss något liknande om den globala norden inte ser till att hantera frågor om klimaträttvisa idag. Octavia E. Butler The Parable of the Sower The Parable of the Talents Naughty Dog The Last of Us The Last of Us: Part II Neil Blomkamp Elysium ecocriticism post-apocalypse critical dystopia climate change criticism gated community urban studies agency the Other video game studies ergodic literature. Octavia E. Butler The Parable of the Sower The Parable of the Talents Naughty Dog The Last of Us The Last of Us: Part II Neil Blomkamp Elysium ekokritik postapokalyps kritisk dystopi klimatfiktion grindsamhällen urbana studier agens det Andra spelforskning ergodisk litteratur. Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier

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