"Bloodchild" and Other Stories Octavia E. Butler

Reviews

• Taylor, J. Douglas Allen. "Novelist and Short-story Writer Octavia Butler Defies Categories." Metroactive Books. 4 Jan. 1996.
• Jonas, Gerald. "Review of Bloodchild and Other Stories." The New York Times. 15 October 1995. 33.
• Jordan, Robert. "Book Reviews: Fiction - Bloodchild." Library Journal 120.16 (1995): 122. Academic Search Complete. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.
• Lawson, John. "Adult Book For Young Adults: Fiction - Bloodchild." School Library Journal 42.7 (1996): 107. Academic Search Complete. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.
• Miller, Jim. "The Technology Fix." American Book Review 17.3 (1996): 28. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Polly Vedder. Vol. 121.
• Publishers Weekly St. John, Janet. "Bloodchild." Booklist 1 Sept. 1995: 47+.

Scholarship

• Gant-Britton, Lisbeth. "Butler, Octavia (1947– )." African American Writers. Ed. Valerie Smith. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. 95-110.
• McIntyre, Vonda N. et al. "Reflections on Octavia E. Butler." Science Fiction Studies 37. 3 (November 2010): 433-442.
• Pfeiffer, John R. "Octavia Butler Writes the Bible." Shaw and Other Matters. Ed. Susan Rusinko. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1998. 140-154. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale, 2008.

"Bloodchild"

• "Bloodchild." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Tim Akers. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 23-37.
• Brauer, Matt. "A Critical Examination of Octavia Butler's ‘Bloodchild’." Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild." Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
• Ferrandez San Miguel, Maria. "Cuerpos Apropriados: Trauma, Biopoder y Poshumanidad en 'Hijo de Sangre," de Octavia Butler y 'La Chica Enchufada," de James Tiptree, Jr.". Atlantis. Revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, no. 2, (2018):1-27.
• Helford, Elyce Rae. "'Would You Really Rather Die than Bear My Young?': The Construction of Gender, Race, and Species in Octavia E. Butler's 'Bloodchild'." African American Review 28.2 (1994): 259-71.
• Kristen Lillvis. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Slavery?: The Problem and Promise of Mothering in Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild"." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 39.4 (2014): 7-22
• Scheer-Schäzler, Brigitte. "Loving Insects Can Be Dangerous: Assessing the Cost of Life in Octavia Estelle Butler's Novella 'Bloodchild' (1984)." Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction. Ed. Domna Pastourmatzi. Thessaloníki, Greece: University Studio, 2002. 314-22.
• Thibodeau, Amanda. "Alien Bodies and a Queer Future: Sexual Revision in Octavia Butler's 'Bloodchild' and James Tiptree, Jr.'s 'With Delicate Mad Hands'." Science Fiction Studies 39.2 [117] (2012): 262-282.
• Waltonen, Karma. "Loving the Other in Science Fiction by Women." MOSF Journal of Science Fiction 1.1 (2016): 33-44.
• Weinbaum, Alys Eve. "The Afterlife of Slavery and the Problem of Reproductive Freedom." Social Text 31.2 [115] (2013): 49-68.

"The Evening and the Morning and the Night"

• Bast, Florian. "I Hugged Myself": First-Person Narration as an Agential Act in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night.]" Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century. Published in print: 2014 Published Online: May 2014 ISBN 9781846319389
• Hammer, Everett. "Determined Agency: A Postsecular Proposal for Religion and Literature-and Science." Religion and Literature 41.3 (2009): 91-98.
• Lavender, Isiah, III. "Digging Deep: Ailments of Difference in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"." Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction. Ed. Isiah Lavender, III. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 2014. 65-82. ISBN 978-1628461237

"Amnesty"

• Curtis, Claire P. "Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia". Utopian Studies 19.3 (2008): 411–431.Foster, Thomas. "'We Get to Live, and So D
• Edwards, Elisa. 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. Print.
• Foster, Thomas. "'We Get to Live, and So Do They': Octavia Butler's Contact Zones." Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. Ed. Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2013. 140-167.
• Hampton, Gregory Jerome. "On the Phone with Octavia Butler." Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler. Blue Ridge Summit, US: Lexington Books, 2010.

"Speech Sounds"

• Govan, Sandra Y. "Disparate Spirits Yet Kindred Souls: Octavia E. Butler, 'Speech Sounds,' and Me." Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. Ed. Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2013. 109-127.
• Sorlin, Sandrine. "Stylistic Techniques and Ethical Staging in Octavia Butler's 'Speech Sounds'." The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity: New Perspectives on Genre Literature. Ed. Maylis Rospide and Sandrine Sorlin. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2015. 82-94. ISBN 978-1443872027
• Troy, Maria Holmgren. "Loss of Words: Octavia Butler's 'Speech Sounds'." The Power of Words. Ed. Solveig Granath, June Miliander, and Elizabeth Wennö. Karlstad, Sweden: Karlstads Universitet, 2005. 73-80.

"The Book of Martha"

• Barr, Marleen S. "Oy/Octavia: Or Keeping My Promise to Ms. Butler." Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 32.4 (2009): 1312-13 14.
• Curtis, Claire. "Maybe Effort Counted.' John Rawls and Thought Experiments." Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: We'll Not Go Home Again. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
• Curtis, Claire P. "Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia". Utopian Studies 19.3 (2008): 411–431.