Further Reading

If you would like to learn more about Octavia Butler’s relationship to contemporary art practices, each of these readings is available through SMU libraries.

Brooks, Kinitra. “Finding the Humanity in Horror: Black Women’s Sexual Identity in Fighting the Supernatural.” Poroi 7(2)(2011): 1-14. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1098.

Butler, Octavia E. Adulthood Rites. Warner Books Edition. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1997.

—Butler, Octavia. “Black Scholar Interview with Octavia Butler: Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre.” The Black Scholar 17, no. 2 (1986): 14–18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41067255.

—Butler, Octavia E. “Brave New Worlds: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future.” Essence, May 2000; 31,1; 164-166.

—Butler, Octavia E. Bloodchild. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1996.

—Butler, Octavia E. Dawn. Warner Books Edition. New York: Aspect, 1997.

—Butler, Octavia E. Imago. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1997.

Butler, Octavia E., and Conseula Francis. Conversations with Octavia Butler. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

Decker, William Merrill. Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler. Northwestern University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv14t47zp.

Flanagan, Mary, and Austin. Booth. Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002.

Hampton, Gregory Jerome. Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2010.

Imarisha, Walidah, Adrienne Maree Brown, and Sheree Renee Thomas. Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Edited by Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown. Oakland, California ;: AK Press, 2015.

Keeling, Kara. Queer Times, Black Futures. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

Lai, Larissa. “The Fourfold Library (15): Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis / Lilith’s Brood.” Foundation (Dagenham) 50, no. 140 (2021): 108–12.

Majaca, Antonia and Luciana Parisi. “The Incomputable and Instrumental Possibility.” e-flux Journal, Issue #77, November 2016. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/77/76322/the-incomputable-and-instrumental-possibility/.

Mehaffy, Marilyn and AnaLouise Keating. “‘Radio Imagination’: Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment.” MELUS 26, no. 1 (2001): 45–76. https://doi.org/10.2307/3185496.

Nanda, Aparajita. "Power, Politics, and Domestic Desire in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood." Callaloo 36, no. 3 (2013): 773-788. doi:10.1353/cal.2013.0164.

Thomas, Sheree R. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. New York: Warner Books, 2000.

Russell, Legacy. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. New York: Verso, 2020.