Octavia

Octaviais a unique play: a work of uncertain authorship and date, erroneously attributed to Seneca, it is the only surviving example of a Roman historical drama. Its story focuses ...

Octavia E. Butler is widely recognised today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butl...

This chapter examines how Joanna Southcott (1750–1814) and Mabel Barltrop—known as Octavia—(1866–1934) interpreted the books of Genesis and Revelation to fashion their roles as pro...

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This chapter reviews the importance of sacred subjectivity to various black sexual cultures. In its proposal of nonmonogamy as an alternative practice for funk's genealogy of affec...