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HTA – Octavia E. Butler, African American Science Fiction, and Rites of Passage

March 22, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Free

Mississippi Valley State University – Business Education Auditorium, Itta Bena, MS

This presentation will discuss aspects of Butler’s life, African American patterns of: the slave narrative, “double consciousness” and Afrofuturism in her work. The texts of the Patternist, Xenogenesis, and Parable series are included as well as Fledgling.  The texts will also be analyzed in light of Victor Turner’s theories of Rites of Passage and “liminality”.

Details

Date:
March 22, 2022
Time:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cost:
Free

Organizer

Mississippi Humanities Council

Venue

Mississippi Valley State University
14000 US-82
Itta Bena, MS 38941
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