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1) Kindred
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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly 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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
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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...
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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...
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Library of America volume 338
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This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that...
5) Parentesco
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"La obra más famosa de Butler, aclamada por la crítica, cuenta la historia de Dana, una joven negra que de repente e inexplicablemente es transportada desde su hogar en la California de los 70 hasta la Guerra Civil del Sur. Mientras viaja en el tiempo entre ambos mundos, uno en el que es una mujer libre y otro en el que forma parte de su propia y complicada historia familiar en una plantación del sur, se enreda aterradoramente en la vida de Rufus,...
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