Alien others : speculative hybrids in imaginary worlds
Hybridity plays a principal role in both J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, crystallizing in the treatment of the origin of species. Through these texts I investigate how the generic condition of speculative fiction (SF), in its claims to unreality, open...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43381 |