SOURCE: Birns, Nicholas. “Octavia Butler: Fashioning Alien Constructs.” The Hollins Critic XXXVIII, no. 3 (June 2001): 1-14.
In the following essay, Birns contends that Octavia Butler “employs her African American and science fiction heritages to see anew the way things are.”
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