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Author Duffy, Damian, author.

Title Kindred : a graphic novel adaptation / by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nnedi Okorafor
Published New York : Abrams Comicarts, 2017
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages) : chiefly color illustrations
Contents Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue
Summary "Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler's mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century. Butler's most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre-Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana's own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers."--Provided by publisher
Notes Print version record
Subject Butler, Octavia E. -- Adaptations
SUBJECT Butler, Octavia E. fast (OCoLC)fst00035925
Subject Enslaved persons -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Time travel -- Comic books, strips, etc
Space and time -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction
Slaveholders -- Comic books, strips, etc
African American women -- Comic books, strips, etc
Slavery -- Comic books, strips, etc
Slaves -- Fiction
Time travel -- Fiction
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
Time travel.
Slaves.
Slavery.
Slaveholders.
African American women.
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Southern States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Subject Southern States.
California -- Los Angeles.
Genre/Form Comics (Graphic works)
Adaptations.
Graphic novels.
Comics.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Science fiction comics.
Time-travel comics.
Bandes dessinées de science-fiction.
Bandes dessinées de voyages dans le temps.
Form Electronic book
Author Jennings, John, 1970- artist.
Okorafor, Nnedi, writer of introduction.
Graphic novelization of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Kindred.
LC no. 2016940630
ISBN 9781613128626
1613128622
Other Titles Octavia E. Butler's Kindred