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Recovering from Amnesia in Octavia Butler’s Texts

EnThree novels by Octavia Butler, the first famous African-American speculative fiction writer, feature characters who suffer from memory loss. All three novels begin with the isolated and forgetful individual who in the course of the narrative recovers some memory of the past and uses it to build o...

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Hovedforfatter:	Kurjatto-Renard, Patrycja
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Udgivet:	Babel 2020
Fag:	mémoire amnésie littérature afro-américaine (XXe et XXIe siècles) roman fantastique memory African-American literature (20th and 21st centuries) amnesia speculative fiction
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:babel_8041 https://doi.org/10.4000/babel.8041 urn:doi:10.4000/babel.8041 https://journals.openedition.org/babel/8041 2020-01-17T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/d5cg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Recovering from Amnesia in Octavia Butler’s Texts Babel Université de Toulon info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2263-4746 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1277-7897 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/babel Kurjatto-Renard, Patrycja mémoire amnésie littérature afro-américaine (XXe et XXIe siècles) roman fantastique memory African-American literature (20th and 21st centuries) amnesia speculative fiction EnThree novels by Octavia Butler, the first famous African-American speculative fiction writer, feature characters who suffer from memory loss. All three novels begin with the isolated and forgetful individual who in the course of the narrative recovers some memory of the past and uses it to build or reconstruct family ties. The article analyzes the way those amnesiac subjects are represented and the types of amnesia they suffer from. It also looks at some elements of what is retrieved in order to trace back the roots of certain recurrent motifs. Finally, it questions the figure of the Black woman fighting to recover her memory and use it as basis to construct a community. Trois romans écrits par Octavia Butler, la première auteure afro-américaine célèbre, présentent de personnages qui souffrent de pertes de mémoire. Ces trois romans s’ouvrent sur l’image d’un individu isolé et oublieux, qui par la suite et tout au long de la narration recouvre une partie de sa mémoire du passé et l’utilise afin de construire ou reconstruire les liens familiaux. Notre article analyse la manière dont ces sujets oublieux sont représentés et les types d’amnésie dont ils souffrent. Nous essayons aussi de montrer certains éléments que ces personnages arrivent à récupérer afin de retracer les origines de certains motifs récurrents. Finalement, nous interrogeons le personnage de la femme Noire qui s’efforce de retrouver sa mémoire et de l’utiliser pour bâtir une communauté.
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topic	mémoire amnésie littérature afro-américaine (XXe et XXIe siècles) roman fantastique memory African-American literature (20th and 21st centuries) amnesia speculative fiction
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description	EnThree novels by Octavia Butler, the first famous African-American speculative fiction writer, feature characters who suffer from memory loss. All three novels begin with the isolated and forgetful individual who in the course of the narrative recovers some memory of the past and uses it to build or reconstruct family ties. The article analyzes the way those amnesiac subjects are represented and the types of amnesia they suffer from. It also looks at some elements of what is retrieved in order to trace back the roots of certain recurrent motifs. Finally, it questions the figure of the Black woman fighting to recover her memory and use it as basis to construct a community.
author	Kurjatto-Renard, Patrycja
author_facet	Kurjatto-Renard, Patrycja
author_sort	Kurjatto-Renard, Patrycja
title	Recovering from Amnesia in Octavia Butler’s Texts
title_short	Recovering from Amnesia in Octavia Butler’s Texts
title_full	Recovering from Amnesia in Octavia Butler’s Texts
title_fullStr	Recovering from Amnesia in Octavia Butler’s Texts
title_full_unstemmed	Recovering from Amnesia in Octavia Butler’s Texts
title_sort	recovering from amnesia in octavia butler’s texts
publisher	Babel
publishDate	2020
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