![]() The visuals keep the pacing quick and definitely bring the action to life. In some ways, the graphic aspect of this adaptation added to the original story. This issue, among many many others, highlights the fact that slavery affected everyone involved and those effects lasted throughout generations. Even in the 1970s, Dana and Kevin’s marriage isn’t fully accepted by some of their own family members. ![]() A white man using the body of a black woman is accepted, or at least ignored by whites, but a white man loving a black woman is somehow shameful. The relationship Dana has with her white husband is simply incomprehensible to the people on the southern plantation 30+ years before the Civil War. This book also deals with interracial relationships. Dana learns about what she’s willing to do to survive and finds herself doing things that go against her ideals. Things are not as clear-cut as she had thought. Dana’s beliefs about slavery are challenged as she lives among enslaved people. It’s a book that deals with slavery through the eyes of a relatively contemporary person and it shows aspects of slavery and racism through multiple perspectives. Dana, the main character, has just turned twenty-six when the main action begins so it’s not about teens, but Dana’s a young woman and is interacting with a variety of young people. Review: Kindred is not generally tagged as young adult, but it will likely be a cross-over title and it was one I wanted to read for our focus on women in graphic novels this month. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere.įrightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers. ![]() Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. ![]() Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century.īutler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. Summary: 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. Genres: Graphic Novel, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Historical ![]() Butler, Adapter Damian Duffy, Artist John Jennings Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel AdaptationĪuthor: Octavia E. ![]()
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