Suchergebnisse

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "An Excess of Women's Emancipation" -- 1. The Other Half of the Sky -- 2. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" -- 3. "Terrorist Girls" and "Wild Furies" -- 4. The Gendered Politics of Starving -- 5. "We Women Are the Better Half of Humanity Anyway" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

This article explores how the literature of the African American writer Octavia Butler elucidates the intersections of several political and cultural movements/phenomena: black women's writing, anti-colonial and feminist discourses, and western science fiction (SF). I relate Butler's
writing to Carole Boyce Davies' theory of black women's migratory subjectivity', as well as to Mae Gwendolyn Henderson's notion of black women's writing as a reflection of simultaneity of discourses. Butler's work mirrors Davies' theory that black women's writing is crucial in understanding
how women negotiate identities in the context of migration and colonial displacement. In her complex narratives of extraterrestrial displacement and colonized people, Butler explores the idea of an identity based in elsewhere as a creation of resistance to Eurocentric and US-centered domination.