Kindred / / Octavia E. Butler

• Autore: Butler Octavia E
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Beacon Press, c2003
• Edizione: 25th anniverary ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 pages)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetto topico: African American women; Slaveholders; Time travel; Slavery; Slaves
• Soggetto geografico: Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction; Southern States Fiction
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284).
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue -- Reader's guide : Critical essay ; Discussion questions.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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." --
• Titolo autorizzato: Kindred
• ISBN: 0-8070-8370-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813557703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Black women writers series.