Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Jennings, John, 1970-
2. Okorafor, Nnedi
3. Butler, Octavia E.

Description

1. vi, 240 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. 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.
2. "Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder--and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it"--Jacket flap.

Alternative title

1. Kindred

Subject

1. Butler, Octavia E
2. Southern States
3. African American women
4. Enslaved persons > Comic books, strips, etc
5. Butler, Octavia E > Adaptations
6. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Comic books, strips, etc
7. Southern States > Comic books, strips, etc
8. Slavery > Comic books, strips, etc
9. California > Los Angeles
10. Science fiction comics
11. African American women > Comic books, strips, etc
12. Slaveholders > Comic books, strips, etc
13. Comics (Graphic works)
14. Graphic novels
15. Adaptations
16. Time travel > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

1. Science fiction comics.
2. Adaptations.
3. Comics (Graphic works)
4. Graphic novels.

Contents

1. Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue.

Call number

1. Sc E 18-300

Audience (note)

1. Young Adult
2. 430

Author

1. Duffy, Damian, author.

Title

1. Octavia E. Butler's Kindred / a graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nnedi Okorafor.

Publisher

1. New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2017.

Type of content

1. still image
2. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Audience

1. Young Adult
2. 430 Lexile

Study program

1. Accelerated Reader 3.0
2. Reading Counts! 4.4

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Added author

1. Jennings, John, 1970- artist.
2. Okorafor, Nnedi, writer of introduction.
3. Graphic novelization of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Kindred.

LCCN

1. 2016940630

ISBN

1. 9781419709470 (hardcover)
2. 141970947X (hardcover)

Research call number

1. Sc E 18-300
2. JFE 18-6033