Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia E. Butler and Others
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    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

Now a FX/Hulu Original Series from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Darren Aronofsky and starring Mallori Johnson and Micah Stock
#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.

  • GENRE
    Comics & Graphic Novels
    RELEASED
    2017
    January 10
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    240
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    ABRAMS
    SELLER
    Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
    SIZE
    379
    MB

    Customer Reviews

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    Amazing!

    This is a must read. The graphics really brings the story to life. She was already one of ,y favorite authors and I enjoyed reading and re-reading her work.

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