6/19/2023 0 Comments Octavia e. butler books list![]() ![]() " Kindred is as much a novel of psychological horror as it is a novel of science fiction.a work of art whose individual accomplishment defies categorization." -Barbara Strickland, The Austin Chronicle "A celebrated mainstay of college courses in women's studies and black literature and culture some colleges require it as mandatory freshman reading." -Linell Smith, The Baltimore Sun Butler's Kindred." -Kevin Weston, San Francisco Chronicle "No other work of fantasy or science fiction writings brings the intimate environment of the antebellum South to life better than Octavia E. "Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb."- Washington Post Book World real women caught in impossible situations."-Dorothy Allison, Village Voice She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre. It is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now." -Sam Frank, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner "One cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. “A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.” “One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity.” the novel one returns to, again and again.” ![]() “Octavia Butler is a writer who will be with us for a long, long time, and Kindred is that rare magical artifact. Sheree Renée Thomas, Scientific American With Kindred illuminating so much of the most compelling speculative fiction, the book stands as an icon for recasting today’s challenges-envisioning new role models and possibilities in the process.” “Sixteen years after Butler’s death, her legacy of fierce imagination feels more relevant than ever. John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer “This powerful novel about a modern black woman transported back in time to a slave plantation in the antebellum South is the perfect introduction to Butler’s work and perspectives for those not usually enamored of science fiction. A book you'll find hard to put down."- Essence “A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail.” It is everything the literature of science fiction can be.” “In Kindred, Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible and a balm for the unbearable. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin. Janicza Bravo ( Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.”ĭeveloped for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ( Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields ( The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky ( The Whale). “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” ( New York Times). ![]() 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. 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.īlazing 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. 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. My left arm.”ĭana’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. The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner ![]()
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