التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Body Horror in Octavia E. Butler's Clay's Ark. |
| المؤلفون: |
Troy, Maria Holmgren |
| المصدر: |
Humanities (2076-0787); Oct2023, Vol. 12 Issue 5, p120, 16p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
HORROR in literature, AMERICAN gothic fiction (Literary genre), SCIENCE fiction |
| Reviews & Products: |
CLAY'S Ark (Book) |
| People: |
BUTLER, Octavia E., 1947-2006 |
| مستخلص: |
African American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler's works have attracted a great deal of academic interest since the 1990s onwards. Clay's Ark (1984), however, has not gained as much scholarly attention as some of her other novels, and the centrality of Gothic aspects, in particular those related to body horror, has not been addressed. By focusing on how these aspects inform the structure, setting, and characters' actions and relationships in this novel about an extraterrestrial infection that threatens and changes humanity, this article demonstrates how Butler employs and adapts strategies and conventions of Gothic horror and body horror in order to explore various attitudes towards difference and transformation, paralleling these with a particular brand of antiblack racism growing out of American slavery. Although the 1980s are already receding into American history, and a few aspects of the imagined twenty-first century in this novel may feel dated today (while many are uncomfortably close to home), Clay's Ark is a prime example of how aspects of popular culture genres and media—such as science fiction, the Gothic, and horror films—can be employed in an American novel to worry, question, and destabilize ingrained historical and cultural patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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