Introduction

“Bloodchild: And Other Stories.” Publishers Weekly, 4 Sept. 1995,
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56858-055-5. Accessed 11 Dec. 2018.

“Bloodchild Novellas and Stories.” Kirkus, 3 Oct. 1995, http://www.kirkusreviews.com/
book-reviews/octavia-e-butler/bloodchild/. Accessed 11 Dec. 2018.

“Book Review: Bloodchild: And Other Stories.” Nashville Public Library, 8 June
2009, nashvillepubliclibrary.org/offtheshelf/
book-review-bloodchild-and-other-stories/. Accessed 11 Dec. 2018.

Eller, Erica. “Book Review: Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories.”
Pomp and Intertext, 11 Feb. 2017, pompandintertext.com/2017/02/11/
book-review-octavia-butlers-bloodchild-and-other-stories/. Accessed 11 Dec.
2018.

Whyte, Nicholas. “‘Bloodchild’ by Octavia E. Butler.” Live Journal,
nicholaswhyte.info/sf/bch.htm. Accessed 11 Dec. 2018.

Primary Sources

Citations for the Primary Sources are found under the “Primary Sources” tab- along with their annotations.

Visualize/Map Intellectual Convo

Helford, Elyce Rae. “‘Would You Really Rather Die than Bear My Young?’: The Construction of Gender, Race, and Species in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Bloodchild.’” African American Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 1994, pp. 259–71. EBSCOhost, login.libproxy.siue.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=0000300305&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Humann, Heather Duerre. “‘A Good and Necessary Thing’: Genre and Justice in Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, vol. 19, no. 4, 2017, pp. 517–528. EBSCOhost, login.libproxy.siue.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=2017398454&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Jonas, Gerald. “Science Fiction.” The New York Times, 15 Oct 1995, https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/books/science-fiction.html.

Lillvis, Kristen. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Slavery? The Problem and Promise of Mothering in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Bloodchild.’” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 39, no. 4, 2014, pp. 7–22. EBSCOhost, login.libproxy.siue.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=2016380611&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Scheer-Schäzler, Brigitte. “Loving Insects Can Be Dangerous: Assessing the Cost of Life in Octavia Estelle Butler’s Novella ‘Bloodchild’ (1984).” Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction, edited by Domna Pastourmatzi, University Studio, 2002, pp. 314–22. EBSCOhost, login.libproxy.siue.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=2003361570&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Thibodeau, Amanda. “Alien Bodies and a Queer Future: Sexual Revision in Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’ and James Tiptree, Jr.’s ‘With Delicate Mad Hands.’” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 39, no. 2 [117], July 2012, pp. 262–282. EBSCOhost, login.libproxy.siue.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=2013100144&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Author Interview

Butler, Octavia. “Octavia Butler Interview- Transcending Barriers.” Interviews with Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction, Apr. 2000, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG68v0RGHsY. Accessed 7 December 2018.

DePauw, https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/potts70interview.htm.

Kenan, Randall. “An Interview With Octavia E. Butler.” Callaloo, vol. 14, no. 2, 1991 pp.495–504. JSTOR, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2931654.

N.a. Octavia Butler at home. A lifelong bibliophile, she considered libraries sacred spaces. The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. Grigsby Bates, Karen. “Octavia Butler: Writing Herself Into The Story.” National Public Radio, 10 July 2017, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/07/10/535879364/octavia-butler-writing-herself-into-the-story.