Changing bodies in the fiction of Octavia Butler: slaves, aliens, and vampires

Octavia Butler & science fiction -- Kindred : history, revision, and (re)memory of bodies -- Wildseed : the paradox of bodily inscriptions -- Patternmaster : hierarchies of identity -- Discussing duality and the chthonic : Octavia Butler, Wole Soyinka, and W.E.B Du Bois -- Religious science fiction : Butler's changing God -- Migration of the hybrid body -- Vampires and utopia : reading racial and gender politics in the fiction of Butler -- Afterword : Vast frontiers -- On the phone with Octavia Butler (October 2002) -- New frontier panel discussion : Butler, Barnes, Due, and Hopkinson.