Feminist Murder in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and late 20th Century Speculative Fiction”

Author : barbara simerka

Abstract : Shaping a Sustainable Future through Innovation, Technology, and Human Progress.

Keywords : Feminist science fiction, gender and violence, female heroism, reader response theory, self-defense narratives, intimate partner violence, speculative fiction, Octavia Butler, Sherri S. Tepper, feminist literary criticism, narrative conflict, gender representation, heroic archetypes, cultural discourse, and Kindred.

Conference Name : International Conference on Gender and Narrative Studies (ICGNS-26)

Conference Place : Geneva, Switzerland

Conference Date : 19th Jun 2026