Podcasts about octavia butler's kindred

"A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles" is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to "tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know." Since her death in 2006, her writing has been widely taken up and praised for its foresight in suggesting developments such as big pharma and for its critique of American history. Shahidha Bari is joined by the author Irenosen Okojie and the scholar Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl, writer, editor, journalist – and long-time friend of Octavia Butler. Irenosen Okojie's latest collection of short stories is called Nudibranch and she was winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story Grace Jones. You can hear her discussing her own writing life alongside Nadifa Mohamed in a previous Free Thinking episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k8sz Gerry Canavan is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. Nisi Shawl writes about books for The Seattle Times, and also contributes frequently to Ms. Magazine, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, The Washington Post. Producer: Luke Mulhall You might be interested in the Free Thinking episode Science fiction and ecological thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h6yw and on Ursula Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6yb37 and a playlist exploring Landmarks of Culture including Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and the writing of Audre Lorde, and of Wole Soyinka https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44

Dana, a black woman living in 1976 Los Angeles and protagonist of Octavia Butler's Kindred, must confront the violent acts that begin her direct familial line. She is drawn back in time again and again to save one Rufus Weylin from death. Rufus turns out to be the white slave owner who will eventually (if he lives) become Dan's own great, great, great, grandfather. Dana must choose to save this terrible man in order to both protect the many generations of her own family, her self. How does the legacy of slavery live on in the present? Join us for a conversation of this classic and important novel. Host Jeffery Jenkins (@jaj7d) is joined by guests Ange-Marie Alfaro (@AngeMarieH), Caroline Bhalla (@Coodence), and Aubrey Hicks (@AubreyHi). Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts. For links and more, check out the showpage: bedrosian.usc.edu/bookclub/kindred

Today in sci-fi news, we talk about everything from Team Godzilla or Team King Kong?, Cosplay shutting down the streets of Japan to Octavia Butler's Kindred being turned into a graphic novel!

Today in sci-fi news, we talk about everything from Cosplay shutting down the streets of Japan to Octavia Butler's Kindred being turned into a graphic novel!

First, Morgan Grundstein Helvey returns to the podcast to sample & discuss (potential aphrodisiac) Mushroom Coffee. Then, an interview with JOHN JENNINGS! John Jennings is an Eisner winning scholar, artist, and curator. On this episode, we talk about his upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's "Kindred", race & representation in comics, and his award-winning book "The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art".