![]() ![]() This threat causes her to vanish again.īack in the present, she tells Kevin about what happened. The man tries to rape her but she fights back. When Dana goes outside to fetch a blanket, she sees a white man who has returned. ![]() After they leave and drag the man away, Dana tends to Alice’s mother, who was also struck. She watches them approach the cabin and beat up a man who was visiting Alice’s mother. Dana sets out for the cabin but hides when she hears white men. Dana realizes that Rufus is an ancestor of hers through recognition of the name ‘Weylin’: a family book mentioned a Rufus married an Alice and had a daughter named Hagar, who was Dana’s grandmother.ĭana is not sure where to go in the time before she vanishes again, so Rufus tells her to seek out his friend Alice and her mother, a free woman, at their cabin in the woods. ![]() It is a plantation complete with slaves, owned by Rufus’s father, Tom Weylin. Through Rufus, Dana learns they are in Maryland in 1815. She and Rufus acknowledge that they’d seen each other a few years back Rufus admits that, before he began drowning, he had seen in his mind’s eye a scene of Dana and a man amongst piles of books. A boy, whom she realizes is Rufus but a few years older, is setting fire to the drapes. While she had been gone for what seemed like at least several minutes, Kevin said she had only been gone for a few seconds.ĭana is transported once again, this time to a room with old-fashioned furniture. Kevin saw her vanish and reappear on the other side of the room, while she clearly traveled elsewhere. She becomes dizzy again and returns to her home.īoth Dana and Kevin are shaken and startled. His father arrives on the scene and aggressively points a rifle in Dana’s face. Dana ignores her and the boy, Rufus, is revived. As she gives him mouth-to-mouth, his frantic mother screams that Dana is killing him. She plunges into the water and saves him. When she wakes, she is by a river in which a young boy is drowning. They began to date and married not long after, even though their families disapproved because Dana was black and Kevin was white.Īs they unpack their books in their home, Dana starts to feel dizzy and falls unconscious. They both worked there to support themselves while they wrote, but Kevin had just sold his first novel and was about to quit. They ware both writers and met at a temp agency. She and Kevin just moved to their new home. She begins to tell her story, leading up to what happened with her arm. The police think her husband Kevin is responsible for the damage to her arm, but she insists that he is not. The novel begins a prologue that finds her in a hospital room just after her arm was amputated. Butler skillfully juxtaposes the serious issues of slavery, human rights, and racial prejudice with an exciting science-fiction, romance, and historical adventure.Dana is a twenty-six year old African American woman living in Altadena, CA. 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.ĭuring numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given: to protect this young slaveholder until he can father her own great-grandmother.Īuthor Octavia E. 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.įrightening, 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.Īvailable from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, I ndie Bound, ABRAMS Booksīutler’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. 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. Adapted by celebrated academics and comic 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. 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. Kindred: Graphic Novel Edition ADAPTED BY jOHN JENNINGS AND DAMIAN DUFFy 2017 Eisner Award Winner ![]()
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