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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Canavan, Gerry
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2016 - B
- Description
- Octavia Butler's life as an African American woman, an alien in American society and among science fiction writers informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sage, Lorna
- Publish Year
- 1983
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 LES 1983 - A
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, romans, receptie, science fiction, Afrika, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw, onderzoek, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Study that surveys the work of writer Doris Lessing from her early African writings to her experiments with space fiction. It traces her struggles to decentre imaginative life and to erase and to redraw the boundaries of our mental maps in favour of values on the margins of the official culture.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Francis, Conseula > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 BUT 2009
- Thesaurus
- zwarte schrijvers, science fiction, zwarte vrouwen, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, interview (vorm), biografische gegevens
- Description
- Collection of interviews with the Afro-American science fiction writer Octavia Butler (1947-2006), published from 1980 till 2006.
the rhetoric of myth in the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rochelle, Warren G.
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B2734 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, science fiction, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book explores the use of imaginative literature as persuasion, focusing on the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin and her rhetorical use of myth.
women and the birth of science fiction, 1926-1965
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Davin, Eric Leif
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, science fiction, schrijvers, receptie, feminisme, 1900-1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, biografische gegevens, bibliografie
- Description
- Eric Davin presents a complete bibliography of stories published by women in science fiction magazines in the U.S. and the U.K. from 1926 to 1965, and brief biographies on 133 of these writers. The larger part of this book is on the history of early science fiction and the role of women fans and writers. He concludes that, contrary to accepted interpretations, women were influential in pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Holden, Rebecca > (ed.)
- Creator
- Shawl, Nisi > (ed.)
- Creator
- Knabe, Susan
- Creator
- Pearson, Wendy Gay
- Creator
- Duchamp, L. Timmel
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Rosenbaum, Benjamin
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwarte literatuur, science fiction, zwarte schrijvers, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, biografische gegevens, bloemlezing
- Description
- Anthology with scholarly essays, reminiscences and personal essays, poems, correspondence, photographs, and interviews about the Afro-American science fiction writer Octavia Butler (1947-2006).
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