03201nam 2200745 a 450 991097267950332120241107093526.00-8070-8370-4(CKB)1000000000705871(OCoLC)646769144(CaPaEBR)ebrary10256074(SSID)ssj0000187478(PQKBManifestationID)11177544(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187478(PQKBWorkID)10135874(PQKB)10070678(MiAaPQ)EBC3118004(MiAaPQ)EBC6067046(Au-PeEL)EBL3118004(CaPaEBR)ebr10256074(CaONFJC)MIL487491(OCoLC)922967934(Au-PeEL)EBL6067046(OCoLC)1155998079(ODN)ODN0000208574(EXLCZ)99100000000070587120030909e20031988 uy 1engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKindred /Octavia E. Butler25th anniverary ed.Boston Beacon Pressc20031 online resource (287 pages)Black women writers series0-8070-8369-0 1-299-56241-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284).Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue -- Reader's guide : Critical essay ; Discussion questions."Dana's torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner's plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction's oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present." --Provided by publisher.Black women writers series.African American womenFictionSlaveholdersFictionTime travelFictionSlaveryFictionEnslaved personsFictionLos Angeles (Calif.)FictionSouthern StatesFictionAfrican American womenSlaveholdersTime travelSlaveryEnslaved persons813/.54FIC014000FIC028080FIC049020bisacshButler Octavia E1032938MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972679503321Kindred4036864UNINA