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Hayward, Philip, ed. (2004). Off the Planet. John Libbey Publishing. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt2005s0z. ISBN 978-0-86196-938-8. In 2006, the Carl Brandon Society established the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship in Butler's memory, to enable writers of color to attend the annual Clarion West Writers Workshop and Clarion Writers' Workshop, descendants of the original Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop in Clarion, Pennsylvania, where Butler got her start. The first scholarships were awarded in 2007. [93] Asteroid 7052 Octaviabutler, discovered by American astronomer Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory in 1988, was named in her memory. [85] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on August 27, 2019 ( M.P.C. 115893). [86] Butler herself has been highly influential in science fiction, particularly for people of color. In 2015, Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha co-edited Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, a collection of 20 short stories and essays about social justice inspired by Butler. [58] Toshi Reagon adapted Parable of the Sower into an opera. [59] In 2020, Adrienne Maree Brown and Toshi Reagon began collaborating on a podcast called Octavia's Parables. [60] Point of view [ edit ]

Octavia E. Butler. (2017, April 28). Biography; A&E Television Networks. https://www.biography.com/writer/octavia-e-butler Kenan Randall (1991). "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler". Callaloo. 14 (2): 495–504. doi: 10.2307/2931654. JSTOR 2931654. Randall Kenan, "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler", Callaloo 14.2. 1991, pp.495–505. JSTOR 2931654. doi: 10.2307/2931654. Liptak, Andrew (June 22, 2020). "A New Podcast Will Take a Deep Dive Into Octavia Butler's Parable Novels". Tor.com . Retrieved June 24, 2020.

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The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith’s Broodis multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., Lilith’s Brood is a profoundly evocative, sensual — and disturbing — epic of human transformation. a book review by Venetria K. Patton: Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements". www.nyjournalofbooks.com . Retrieved June 24, 2020.

Collins, Kiara (January 28, 2016). "Octavia Butler's personal journal shows the author literally wrote her life into existence". Blavity.Butler's first work published was "Crossover" in the 1971 Clarion Workshop anthology. She also sold the short story "Childfinder" to Harlan Ellison for the anthology The Last Dangerous Visions. "I thought I was on my way as a writer", Butler recalled in her short fiction collection Bloodchild and Other Stories, which contains "Crossover". "In fact, I had five more years of rejection slips and horrible little jobs ahead of me before I sold another word." [27] Lilith acclimates to living among the Oankali in the second half of "Family." She begins to understand the Oankali way of life and, though she is still an outsider, begins to move with more ease through their world. The largest development that helps Lilith with this process is the procedure that Nikanj performed on her at the end of the previous section. When Lilith awakes, at first she does not realize that anything is different. However, she suddenly realizes that there is no longer a language barrier between her and Nikanj: "It dawned on her slowly that Nikanj had come to her speaking Oankali and she had responded in kind—had responded without really thinking. The language seemed natural to her, as easy to understand as English" (79). Lilith realizes that Nikanj's procedure has improved her memory to such an extent that "now she remembered every day that she had been awake" (82). Later, Lilith will also be given the ability to open walls in her own home when Nikanj alters her body chemistry a bit more. Every single one of these procedures is done without her explicit consent—even though she does agree to the memory procedure, she does not know exactly what it will do to her. The Oankali seem to believe that they are free to make any changes they deem "for the greater good" no matter what the being they are operating on thinks or feels about it. Schwab, Gabriele. "Ethnographies of the Future: Personhood, Agency and Power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis", in William Maurer and Gabriele Schwab (eds), Accelerating Possession, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006: 204–228. Ferreira, Maria Aline. "Symbiotic Bodies and Evolutionary Tropes in the Work of Octavia Butler." Science Fiction Studies 37. 3 (November 2010): 401–415. Malik, Tariq (June 22, 2018). "Google Doodle Honors Science Fiction Author Octavia E. Butler". Space.com . Retrieved June 22, 2018.

Ramirez, Catherine S. "Cyborg Feminism: The Science Fiction of Octavia Butler and Gloria Anzaldua", in Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth (eds), Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002: 374–402. FX Nabs Adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's 'Kindred' ". The Hollywood Reporter. March 8, 2021 . Retrieved March 9, 2021. Darrell Schweitzer, "Watching the Story Happen", Interzone 186 (February 2003): 21. Reprinted as "Octavia Butler" in Speaking of the Fantastic II: Interviews with the Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2004. ISBN 978-1-4344-4229-1, pp.21–36. Levecq, Christine, "Power and Repetition: Philosophies of (Literary) History in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred". Contemporary Literature 41.3 (2000 Spring): 525–553. JSTOR 1208895. doi: 10.2307/1208895.Paul's violence against Lilith speaks to an underlying question throughout Dawn: does gender determine behavior? As Lilith learns more about Oankali life, she realizes that different genders seem to have different roles. In particular, the ooloi seem to have more power, even though the Oankali claim they are not hierarchical. Lilith herself wonders how Nikanj will change after it goes through sexual maturity: "She wondered what it would look like with its second pair of arms, what it would be like as a mature being. More like Kahguyaht? Or maybe more like Jdhaya and Tediin. How much did sex determine personality among the Oankali?" (81). She admits, however, that this is a hard question to ask, even when thinking about humans: "She shook her head. Stupid question. She did not know how much sex determined personality even among human beings" (81). Paul seems to have a different interpretation of gender and behavior than Lilith. Despite the fact that he has been living among the Oankali for a long time, he does not refer to the ooloi as "it" and instead use "him" or "her" according to that ooloi's personality. When he refers to Nikanj as a "he," Lilith corrects him: "'Nikanj isn't male. . . It's ooloi'" (87). Paul responds that Nikanj "'seem[s] male'" and that gendering the ooloi as male or female is a habit of his: "'When they woke me up, I thought the ooloi acted like men and women while the males and females acted like eunuchs. I never really lost the habit of thinking of the ooloi as male or female'" (87). Lilith thinks that Paul's way of thinking is senseless, explaining that she has "'taken their word for what they are'" (87). Nevertheless, she does seem to hold on to a sense of predetermined gender roles. She believes that Paul acted the way he did when he was alone with her because "'he has no one to teach him to be a man'" among the Oankali (99). Ultimately, it seems like characters in Butler's world understand a direct link between gender and behavior, human and Oankali alike. This is why, at the end of "Family," Kahguyaht reveals to Lilith that it used to believe that a man would be more appropriate for Lilith's upcoming role: "'I didn't want to accept you, Lilith. Not for Nikanj or for the work you'll do. I believed that because of the way human genetics were expressed in culture, a human male should be chosen to parent the first group. I think now I was wrong" (110). Interestingly, even though in our culture women are more easily thought of as parents than men, the Oankali believe that characteristics that are more "male" would better serve a parent in this context. We will see in the next sections how Lilith rises to the occasion of "parenting" the group of Awakened humans on the ship.

During the Open Door Workshop of the Writers Guild of America West, a program designed to mentor minority writers, her writing impressed one of the teachers, noted science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison. He encouraged her to attend the six-week Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop in Clarion, Pennsylvania. There, Butler met Samuel R. Delany, who became a longtime friend. [19] She also sold her first stories: "Childfinder" to Ellison, for his unpublished anthology The Last Dangerous Visions (eventually published in Unexpected Stories in 2014 [20] [21]); and "Crossover" to Robin Scott Wilson, the director of Clarion, who published it in the 1971 Clarion anthology. [7] [10] [17] [22] Johns, J. Adam. "Becoming Medusa: Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood and Sociobiology." Science Fiction Studies 37.3 (2010): 382–400. From an early age, an almost paralyzing shyness made it difficult for Butler to socialize with other children. Her awkwardness, paired with a slight dyslexia [11] that made schoolwork a torment, made Butler an easy target for bullies. She believed that she was "ugly and stupid, clumsy, and socially hopeless." [12] As a result, she frequently spent her time reading at the Pasadena Central Library. [13] She also wrote extensively in her "big pink notebook". [12] Bradford, K. Tempest (July 10, 2014). "An 'Unexpected' Treat For Octavia E. Butler Fans". NPR . Retrieved October 15, 2021.a b c Butler, Octavia E. "'Radio Imagination': Octavia Butler on the Politics of Narrative Embodiment." Interview with Marilyn Mehaffy and Ana Louise Keating. MELUS 26.1 (2001): 45–76. JSTOR 3185496. doi: 10.2307/3185496. However, the ooloi eventually cut against the effect of the drugs, because, after the humans have mated with them, they turn the humans against themselves. Rather than have solidarity with their human group, each pair of humans instead feels solidarity with their mates (human and Oankali). For example, when Peter's ooloi accidentally kills him, Jean is inconsolable and will not let anyone touch her. Lilith notes, "All of the humans who had been kept heavily drugged were this way—unable to tolerate the nearness of anyone except their human mate and the ooloi who had drugged them" (196). Butler, Octavia E. "Afterword to Crossover." Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York: Seven Stories Press. 1996. p.120. Nittle, Nadra (November 4, 2022). "Octavia Butler's middle school has been renamed in her honor". The 19th. Larry McCaffery and Jim McMenamin, "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler", in Larry McCaffery (ed.), Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers, 1990. ISBN 978-0-252-06140-0, pp.54–70.

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