The Resource Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
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The item Kindred, Octavia E. Butler represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cedar Rapids Public Library-Metro Library Network.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Kindred, Octavia E. Butler represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cedar Rapids Public Library-Metro Library Network.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
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- Dana, a Black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor
- 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 the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 25th anniverary ed.
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue
- The river
- The fire
- The fall
- The fight
- The storm
- The rope
- Isbn
- 9780807083697
- Label
- Kindred
- Title
- Kindred
- Statement of responsibility
- Octavia E. Butler
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- Dana, a Black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor
- 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 the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Butler, Octavia E
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3552.U827
- LC item number
- K5 2003
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Black women writers series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American women
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Southern States
- Slaveholders
- Time travel
- Slavery
- Slaves
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Science fiction
- Label
- Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope
- Control code
- ocm53021612
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 25th anniverary ed.
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807083697
- Lccn
- 2003062862
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)53021612
- Label
- Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope
- Control code
- ocm53021612
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 25th anniverary ed.
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807083697
- Lccn
- 2003062862
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)53021612
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