Becoming and Belonging: The Productivity of Pleasures and Desires in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy (Critical Essay)

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Release Date: 2008-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

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"Let them learn that it isn't shameful to be together with one another and with us." --Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis Trilogy

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