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#1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium 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, as well as a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, the intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed in the book still 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherAbrams, Inc.
ISBN-101419728555
ISBN-139781419728556
eBay Product ID (ePID)242890348
Product Key Features
GenreFiction, Comics & Graphic Novels
Publication Year2018
LanguageEnglish
Artist/WriterJennings, John, Octavia Butler
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length9.5in
Item Height0.7in
Item Weight22.6 Oz
Item Width6.5in
Additional Product Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Professional GraderEighth Grade
Book TitleKindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation
Lccn2019-295932
Adapted byDuffy, Damian
Dewey Decimal741.5
Grade toCollege Graduate Student
Lc Classification NumberPn6727
Era Range13-Up
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsAdapting any prose novel to the graphic format is an audacious undertaking at the best of times, but translating Octavia E. Butler's fearsomely powerful work in particular must surely have been a herculean task. Yet Damian Duffy and John Jennings have managed it...A worthy and powerful supplement to a classic.
Target AudienceTrade
IllustratedYes
TopicAfrican American / General, African American / Historical, General, Science Fiction / General
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