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Kindred
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- ISBN: 9780807083703
- ISBN: 0807083704
- ISBN: 9780807083697
- ISBN: 0807083690
- ISBN: 1299562418
- ISBN: 9781299562417
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (287 pages). - Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. Psychological fiction. Science fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor. Reprint. - Baker & Taylor
Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor. - Random House, Inc.
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur âGeniusâ Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
âI lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.â
Danaâs torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveownerâs plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.
Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whiteheadâs The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coatesâs The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fictionâs oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. âWhere stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and preciseâ (New York Times).
âReading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think itâs absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.âÂ
âN. K. JemisinÂ
Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin.
