Editing Octavia E. Butler (section)

=== Relationship to Afrofuturism ===
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| source = —From Butler's interview on ''[[Charlie Rose]]''. Thursday, June 1, 2000.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Charlie |title=Octavia Butler |url=https://charlierose.com/videos/28978 |website=Charlie Rose |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605145423/https://charlierose.com/videos/28978 |archive-date=5 June 2020}}</ref>
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Author Octavia E. Butler is known for blending science fiction with African American spiritualism.<ref>Octavia E. Butler. (2017, April 28). Biography; A&E Television Networks. https://www.biography.com/writer/octavia-e-butler</ref>

Butler's work has been associated with the genre of [[Afrofuturism]],<ref name="Sinker">Sinker, Mark. "Loving the Alien." ''The Wire'' 96 (February 1992): 30–32.</ref> a term coined by [[Mark Dery]] to describe "[[speculative fiction]] that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of 20th-century [[technoculture]]".<ref name="Bould">Bould, Mark. "The Ships Landed Long Ago: Afrofuturism and Black SF", ''Science Fiction Studies'' 34.2 (July 2007): 177–186. {{JSTOR|4241520}}.</ref> Some critics, however, have noted that while Butler's protagonists are of African descent, the communities they create are multi-ethnic and, sometimes, multi-species. As [[De Witt Douglas Kilgore]] and [[Ranu Samantrai]] explain in their 2010 memorial to Butler, while keeping "an [[Afrocentrism|afro-centric]] sensibility at the core of narratives", her "insistence on hybridity beyond the point of discomfort" and grim themes deny both the ethnocentric [[escapism]] of afrofuturism and the sanitized perspective of white-dominated [[Pluralism (political philosophy)|liberal pluralism]].<ref name="Kilgore" />

''[[Wild Seed (novel)|Wild Seed]]'', of the Patternist series, is considered to particularly fit ideas of Afrofuturist thematic concerns, as the narrative of two immortal Africans Doro and Anyanwu features science fiction technologies and an [[Alternate history|alternate anti-colonialist history]] of seventeenth-century America.<ref name="Canavan">Canavan, Gerry. "[http://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1235&context=english_fac Bred to Be Superhuman: Comic Books and Afrofuturism in Octavia Butler's Patternist Series] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211163347/http://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1235&context=english_fac|date=11 December 2015}}." ''Paradoxa'' 25 (2013): 253–287.</ref><ref name="Off the Planet">{{Cite book|title=Off the Planet|year=2004|publisher=John Libbey Publishing|isbn=978-0-86196-938-8|editor-last=Hayward|editor-first=Philip|doi=10.2307/j.ctt2005s0z}}</ref>