Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories
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New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020].
ISBN
9781598536751, 1598536753
Physical Desc
xv, 774 pages ; 21 cm
xv, 774 pages ; 21 cm.
xv, 774 pages ; 21 cm.
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Knight Memorial - Adult Fiction | SF Butler | On Shelf |
Olneyville - Science Fiction/Fantasy (Main Floor) | Fic Butler | On Shelf |
Pawtucket - Adult Non-Fiction | PS 3552 U827 A6 2020 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781598536751, 1598536753
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays--including two never before collected, plus newly researched explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler's friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction.
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LC Subjects
African American women -- Fiction.
Afrofuturist fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Horror fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Slaveholders -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Fiction.
Time-travel fiction.
Vampires -- Fiction.
Afrofuturist fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Horror fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Slaveholders -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Fiction.
Time-travel fiction.
Vampires -- Fiction.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Butler, O. E., Canavan, G., Shawl, N., & Butler, O. E. (2020). Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories . The Library of America.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Octavia E., Butler et al.. 2020. Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. The Library of America.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Octavia E., Butler et al.. Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories The Library of America, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Butler, Octavia E.,, Gerry Canavan, Nisi Shawl, and Octavia E Butler. Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories The Library of America, 2020.
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