1. Hours 1-2: Review in preparation for Research Paper Proposal.
Hour 1 will be on "Bloodchild," "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" and "Speech Sounds." Hour 2 on "Amnesty" and "The Book of Martha." We will go over story summaries, topics, and secondary sources.
See review HERE
2. Hour 3: Finishing loose ends and making sure you are fulfilling requirements.
Assignments due October 21
In the first section, summarize Curtis, Claire P. “Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia”. Utopian Studies 19.3 (2008): 411–431. (Yes, you need to look it up in the library)
After the summary, copy three quotations from the reading using bullet points.
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In the second section, summarize Edwards, Elisa. “Octavia Butler’s ‘Amnesty’.” (2003) in Race, Aliens, and the U.S. Government in African American Science Fiction. Münster [u.a.: Lit, 2011.]
After the summary, copy three quotations from the reading using bullet points.
In the third section, summarize Hampton, Gregory Jerome. “Religious Science Fiction: Butler’s Changing God.” Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler. Blue Ridge Summit, US: Lexington Books, 2010. After the summary, copy three quotations from the reading using bullet points.
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After the summary, copy three quotations from the reading using bullet points.
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