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, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there
are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. 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. 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.
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia Butler & John Jennings
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