2. The Alien in Us: Metaphors of Transgression in the Work of Octavia E. Butler

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Science Fiction’s Alien Constructions 1
5. PART I Difference, Identity, and Colonial Experience in Feminist Science Fiction
6. Introduction 35
7. 1. Cultural Chameleons: Anticolonial Identities and Resistance in Octavia E. Butler’s Survivor and Dawn 43
8. 2. The Alien in Us: Metaphors of Transgression in the Work of Octavia E. Butler 67
9. PART II Technologies and Gender in Science Fiction Film
10. Introduction 103
11. 3. Technoscience’s Stepdaughter: The Feminist Cyborg in Alien Resurrection 108
12. 4. Our Bodies as Our Selves Body, Subjectivity, and (Virtual) Reality in The Matrix 149
13. PART III Posthuman Embodiment: Deviant Bodies, Desire, and Feminist Politics
14. Introduction 177
15. 5. The Anatomy of Dystopia: Female Technobodies and the Death of Desire in Richard Calder’s Dead Girls 183
16. 6. Beyond Binary Gender: Genderqueer Identities and Intersexed Bodies in Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed and Imago and Melissa Scott’s Shadow Man 219
17. Conclusion 259
18. Notes 265
19. Bibliography 299
20. Index 317