Michael Bell
Period F
English 3
Annotated Bibliography
Hua, Linh. Reproducing Time, Reproducing History: Love and Black Feminist sentimentality in Octavia Butler’s Kindred. California: Journal, 2011. This article was helpful because it gave a good outlook on black feminist. It also gave information on people’s outlook on the African American race which in this article talks about how females were look upon. The way female African American woman were look upon was totally different from how they treated males. In this article it explains racialization in the literary and cultural sense of how things were in the nineteenth century. In this article it also talks about a relationship between two women who was a part of the alliance of the black feminist sentimentality. Smith, Stephanie. Octavia Butler: A Retrospective. Feminist studies, 2007.
This article was helpful because it gives example of a relationship. It gives some insight on the relationship with Rufus and Dana. In my thesis it talks about certain type’s relationship. It talks about an African American women and a white male, this relationship is considered to be interracial. In my thesis it talks about interracial marriages so this helps me out in my research because it is more information and examples I can use.
Butler, Octavia. Black scholar interview with Octavia Butler: Black woman and the science fiction genre. Paradigm publishers, 1986.
In this article she is mainly answering questions about the book. This article gives good information because I can use this to see her views on certain things and apply it to my research I have already. In this article it talks about racial amnesia and different opportunities she had and challenges as well. Part of my thesis talks about love through different relationships. And in this article it helps with her views on how people were treated such as whites and blacks.
Lacroix, David. To touch solid evidence: The implicit of past and present in Octavia E. Butlers “Kindred”. Midwest modern language association, 2007. This article helped in my research because it gave an idea about how her book was looked at in the past and how
