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1. 1. Positive Obsession

   

   Positive Obsession is a cultural biography of Octavia Butler that situates her life and work within the social and political movements of her time—Civil Rights, Black Power, women’s liberation, queer rights, and the economic shifts of the late twentieth century. Susana M. Morris explores how those contexts shaped Butler’s speculative fiction and its recurring concerns: the rise and fall of American power, systems of hierarchy and violence, climate crisis, and alternatives to conventional religion and family, often centering Black women as complex, driven protagonists. The book also examines Butler’s compulsive need to write and how that determination shaped her career and ideas.

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