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Description: "Dana, a twentieth-century Black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched 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. Repeatedly drawn back through time -- and with each stay growing longer and more perilous -- Dana is forced to contend with the brutal legacy of slavery and white supremacy, not knowing if her life will end long before it has the chance to begin"--Back cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2004]
Call number: 642414
Creator: Butler, Octavia E(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0807083690; 9780807083697
Provenance: Purchased from Strand Book Store, December 2024.

Kindred

Manuscripts

34 items. Note: formerly in an envelope entitled "Guardian: Photocopied Notes & Bibliography, Maps Also photos & my idea Dana & Kevin." Note: includes LAPL call slips. See also extra oversize.

mssOEB

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"Octavia E. Butler is one of the most important figures in speculative fiction history; a pioneering African-American author who won multiple awards and changed the very foundation of the genre. 'Kindred' is perhaps her most iconic novel, a ground-breaking time-travel thriller that plunges its heroine into pre-Civil War America, challenging the reader to witness the horrors of slavery. For this edition, celebrated artist James E. Ransome was commissioned to provide a series of emotive illustrations and a beautifully simple binding design. In her exclusive introduction, author and journalist Tananarive Due draws on interviews with Butler to take a deeper look at this essential novel, and the questions it raises about history, guilt and survival"--From Folio Society's description.

642419

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Butler, Octavia E. Kindred: novel: draft. Phot. copy and

Manuscripts

MS. (typewritten: 419p.); 28cm. With autograph marks. Also: publisher's note, 1p. Formerly titled "Dana" and "To Keep Thee in All Thy Ways."

OEB 1234A-1234B

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Kindred : a graphic novel adaptation

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"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white - and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word"--

647866

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Butler, Octavia E. Photo album: spinner with child

Manuscripts

1 photograph: color; 13x9cm. Near Cuzco, Peru. Note: folio 21, center. "The spinner is also owner (or caretaker) of the Llama below. She spun, carried her child, herded her animals and encouraged tourists to take her picture + tip her." "These methods of spinning + weaving extend back to and beyond Inca times."

OEB 7830

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Butler, Octavia E. Kindred: novel: draft

Manuscripts

Carb. copy and phot. copy (MS., typewritten: 415p.); 28cm. Los Angeles, Calif. With the author's autograph notes and corrections. Formerly titled "To Keep Thee in All Thy Ways."

OEB 1231A-1231B

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