Posthuman bodies and agency in octavia butler’s xenogenesis

Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 91-112

  Jacobs, Naomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315810775-12     Document Type: Chapter

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