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Kindred / Octavia E. Butler.
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- ISBN: 9780807083697 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 287 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Twenty-fith anniverary edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2003]
- Copyright: ©1979
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in hardcover: Doubleday, 1979. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | African American women > Fiction. Slaveholders > Fiction. Time travel > Fiction. Slavery > Fiction. Slaves > Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction. Southern States > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Science fiction. |
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- 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. - 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. - Blackwell North Amer
The visionary authorâs masterpiece pulls usâalong with her Black female heroâthrough time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin. - Random House, Inc.
Experience the novel that redefined American literature by the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower, MacArthur âGenius," and Nebula and Hugo award winner
Selected by The Atlantic as one of the "most consequential novels of the past 100 years"
"I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm."
Dana's 26th birthday celebration ends when she's ripped from 1976 California and thrust onto a Maryland slave plantation in 1815. Her mission: keep alive the white boy who will grow up to assault her ancestorâbecause without him, she'll never be born.
Every trip back grows more dangerous. Dana feels the lash, wears the chains, endures the daily terror that defined millions of lives. She can't just read about slavery's horrorsâshe lives them, bleeds from them, nearly breaks under them.
Butler doesn't let you observe from a safe distance. You're trapped in Dana's skin as she navigates impossible choices: submit to survive, or resist and risk everything. You'll feel her desperation as she fights to preserve her humanity while the plantation's brutality threatens to consume her.
This isn't historical fictionâit's time travel that cuts straight to the bone of American racism. Butler pioneered the neo-slavery narrative that inspired Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Water Dancer. But Kindred remains unmatched in its raw power to make slavery's legacy feel immediate, personal, and inescapable.
You'll finish this book changed. Dana's story will lodge itself in your chest and refuse to leave. You'll understand, in ways textbooks never taught you, how the past lives in our presentâand why that matters more than ever.
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.â
âN. K. Jemisin
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