Kindred, fledgling, collected stories.

Type:

boek

Titel:

Kindred, fledgling, collected stories.

Auteur:

Butler, Octavia E.; Canavan, Gerry; Shawl, Nisi

Jaar:

2020

Onderwerp:

Literatuur: Fictie. Verhalende Proza

Taal:

Engels

Uitgever:

New York : The library of America, 2020

Plaatsnummer:

82.3 / BUTL / 2020 (Kunstenbibliotheek)

ISBN:

9781598536751

Paginering:

774 p.

Samenvatting:

This first volume in the Library of America edition of 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 ?nds 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 ?ve essays—including two never before collected, plus a newly researched chronology of Butler’s life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler’s friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction.

Nota:

boek

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