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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

Lin Knutson
Barcode 9781666903102
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Release Date: 13/03/2023

Genre: Society & Culture
Sub-Genre: Gender Sex & Relationships
Label: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books
Pages: 110

This book explores the ways in which Butler’s protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through liminality, they engage in psychological, physical, and social transformations that increase their empowerment.


Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in exile from their home communities. During this process, they engage in psychological, physical, political, and social transitions through what Victor Turner and Makhail Bakhtin describe as carnivalesque identities. Using postcolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, and African American theorists, Lin Knutson examines how Butler’s imagined genesis and history carry echoes of American history, slave history, debt slavery, and colonization.