Liminality in Butler’s Kindred

By Erica Mongé-Greer | July 9, 2021 |
Kindred by Octavia Butler

Read or Listen to the Blogcast One of Octavia Butler‘s first novels has been recently made into a graphic novel. Kindred is a twentieth-century novel that explores the intersections of mid-twentieth century life for an African American woman living in Los Angeles with the life of her ancestors in nineteenth-century Maryland. Dana, Caught Between Two…

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Apocalypse & Parables by Octavia Butler

By Erica Mongé-Greer | June 28, 2021 |
Butler

I have only just discovered the amazing storyteller and author Octavia Butler. I’m writing this blog to ensure that you don’t miss out on the Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents. The latter won the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1999). Despite the Parable series being published in the 1990s, the books did…

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