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1. Describe the ways Critical Race Theory and Intersectional theory manifest in this novel, using at least one concrete example of each, focused on Alice and Kevin. 2.   How does Dana and Kevin’s relationship change when they’re in the past, compared to the present? Why? How does Dana’s relationship to Kevin compare to her relationship with Rufus? 

3. Dana remarks that it’s easy to get people to accept slavery. What prompts her to say that? What do we accept today that the future may judge negatively? 

4.  At the end of the novel, Dana has lost something and Kevin has gained something from their time in the past. What are those things? Why did Butler (the author) make those choices? What do they signify or symbolize? 

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    throughout, pacing and containing, then pushing every ounce of discomfort
    to the forefront. Comics and science fiction exploit their greatest

    shared strength by illuminating the mundane that surrounds us, allowing
    any reader to critique and process our world with new vision.”

    —Nate Powell, Eisner Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling
    graphic novelist of March, The Year of the Beasts, and Swallow Me Whole

    “Wonderful. Captures the essence of Octavia Butler’s vision even as it
    demonstrates the superlative skills of Damian Duffy and John Jennings.”

    —Nalo Hopkinson, author of Skin Folk, The New Moon’s Arms,
    and Sister Mine; winner of the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards

    and the Prix Aurora Prize

    Octavia E. Butler was the MacArthur “Genius,”
    Nebula Award, and Hugo Award–winning author
    of numerous books. She is considered one of
    America’s most prominent science fiction writers.

    Damian Duffy is a cartoonist, writer, and letterer,
    and the co-editor of Black Comix: African American
    Independent

    Comics Art & Culture. He holds a PhD

    in Library and Information Science from the
    University of Illinois at

    Urbana-Champaign.

    John Jennings co-edited the Eisner Award–winning
    anthology The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black
    Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. He is professor
    of media and cultural studies at the University of
    California at Riverside and was awarded the Nasir
    Jones HipHop

    Fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins

    Center for African & African

    American Research.

    Nnedi Okorafor is an acclaimed Nigerian-American
    author of science fiction, fantasy, and magic
    realism whose work has won the World Fantasy
    Award for Best Novel and the Wole Soyinka Prize
    for African Literature, among others. She teaches
    creative writing and literature at the University
    of Buffalo.

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    “A glorious tribute to Octavia Butler’s masterpiece. Extraordinary.”
    —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

    I LOST AN ARM ON MY LAST TRIP HOME.
    Home is a new house with a loving husband
    in

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    transformed into the frightening world of
    the antebellum South.
    Dana, a young black writer, can’t explain
    how she is transported across time and
    space to a plantation in Maryland. But she
    does quickly understand why: to deal with
    the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white
    slaveholder—and her progenitor.
    Her survival, her very existence, depends
    on it.
    This searing graphic-novel adaptation of
    Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction classic is a
    powerfully moving, unflinching look at the
    violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the
    people it chained together, both black and
    white—and made kindred in the deepest sense
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    taut adaptation and John Jennings’s tense, electric renderings vibrate
    throughout, pacing and containing, then pushing every ounce of discomfort
    to the forefront. Comics and science fiction exploit their greatest
    shared strength by illuminating the mundane that surrounds us, allowing
    any reader to critique and process our world with new vision.”
    —Nate Powell, Eisner Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling
    graphic novelist of March, The Year of the Beasts, and Swallow Me Whole

    “Wonderful. Captures the essence of Octavia Butler’s vision even as it
    demonstrates the superlative skills of Damian Duffy and John Jennings.”
    —Nalo Hopkinson, author of Skin Folk, The New Moon’s Arms,
    and Sister Mine; winner of the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards
    and the Prix Aurora Prize
    Octavia E. Butler was the MacArthur “Genius,”
    Nebula Award, and Hugo Award–winning author
    of numerous books. She is considered one of
    America’s most prominent science fiction writers.

    Damian Duffy is a cartoonist, writer, and letterer,
    and the co-editor of Black Comix: African American
    Independent Comics Art & Culture. He holds a PhD
    in Library and Information Science from the
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    John Jennings co-edited the Eisner Award–winning
    anthology The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black
    Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. He is professor
    of media and cultural studies at the University of
    California at Riverside and was awarded the Nasir
    Jones HipHop Fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins
    Center for African & African American Research.

    Nnedi Okorafor is an acclaimed Nigerian-American
    author of science fiction, fantasy, and magic
    realism whose work has won the World Fantasy
    Award for Best Novel and the Wole Soyinka Prize
    for African Literature, among others. She teaches
    creative writing and literature at the University
    of Buffalo.
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    Finally.

    A graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s mold-smashing science

    fiction book, Kindred. Can you believe it? And created by visual mad scientists

    John Jennings and Damian Duffy to boot? Fantastic. To see Butler’s work

    presented in this way is deliciously harrowing. The very medium of the

    graphic novel already electrifies words and images. Tell one of Octavia’s most

    immersive, relatable tales through this medium and you have fire. This is an

    exciting moment in storytelling. Octavia Butler, Level 2.

    I first came across Octavia’s work around

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    to identifying as a black female writer of speculative fiction. I was attending

    the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop at Michigan State

    University, and the organizers had brought my group to the local bookstore.

    As I strolled through the aisles, something extraordinary caught my eye,

    something I’d only ever seen once before in the science fiction and fantasy

    section of a bookstore: a cover featuring a dark-skinned black woman.

    I was staring at Wild Seed by Octavia Estelle Butler.

    There was only one copy of the book there on that fateful day. I grabbed

    it, clasped it to my chest as if someone was going to snatch it from me, quickly

    bought it, and ran to my dorm room to start reading.

    That was the beginning of my bingeing on Octavia Butler’s works.

    In the previous weeks at Clarion, I had just begun writing about an angry

    Nigerian woman in pre-colonial Nigeria who’d been run out of her village

    because she’d developed the ability to fly. I was one of only two people of color

    in the writing group, and I was uncomfortable about workshopping my story.

    Plus, I’d never read a purely speculative story set anywhere on the continent of

    Africa that addressed womanhood and patriarchy bluntly.

    When I look back, it’s clear to me that I discovered Octavia right when I

    needed her. Reading Wild Seed, a story that featured an ageless shape-shifting

    Nigerian woman, blew my mind. And there is nothing like seeing a story in

    print that is similar to what you are trying to write. In many ways, reading Wild

    INTRODUCTION

    Seed proved that what I was writing was okay, that people like me could be a part

    of this canon. This was a very big deal to me.

    Sometime during those few weeks at the Clarion workshop, I learned

    that Octavia had once taught there, which meant that the organizers could

    reach her. I immediately asked if they could track her down. Within a day, I

    was on the phone with the great Octavia Butler, babbling my way through a

    conversation I don’t remember; I was so starstruck. What I do remember was

    that Octavia was incredibly kind and liked to crack jokes.

    That wasn’t the last time we spoke to each other. When the 9/

    11

    attacks

    happened, I found myself having a surreal email exchange with her. I kept

    those emails. What she said about terrorists still applies (and was an important

    theme in Kindred):

    One of my favorite quotes—so sadly true—is from Steve Biko:
    “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the
    mind of the oppressed.”

    There is also the sad reality that it takes very little to set off
    young men who want to feel powerful and important, but who
    are either unwilling or unable to find constructive outlets for
    their energies. Testosterone poisoning. And men have the
    nerve to complain about women’s hormonal mood swings.

    In 2005, I had a long conversation with Octavia when I interviewed her

    about her vampire novel Fledgling; later that year, I met her in person (for the

    first and only time) when she came to Chicago State University.

    Octavia’s email address was butler8star@qwest.net. For a long time after

    her shocking, sudden passing on February 24, 2006, I continued to send

    emails to that address, consoling myself by talking to her. Then one sad

    day, the emails started bouncing back. Thankfully, she left us with so many

    questions to ponder. Like, what would you do if you were suddenly pulled into the past and

    had to find a way to survive?

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    Kindred, a story about a modern African-American woman who

    mysteriously gets dragged into slave times and situations to save herself, is

    Octavia’s most popular book. If one of her works is taught in a literature class,

    nine times out of ten it’s this one. That is because Kindred is her most accessible

    book. It is a narrative that deftly connects America’s past, present, and future

    through the use of mysterious time travel. It’s a most unique slave narrative

    that is no less relevant and “realistic” than Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Beloved,

    and

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    Years a Slave.

    And now, here is that story powerfully told in graphic-novel form. Buckle

    your seat belt. Still your mind. Kindred makes the old new, and in doing so

    brings back the sting. If you’ve read Kindred before, the graphic-novel format

    will renew the story. If you have not read Octavia Butler before, prepare

    yourself for an experience. You’ve chosen the perfect introduction to her work.

    Kindred will pull you right in.

    Welcome.
    Nnedi Okorafor
    Flossmoor, Illinois
    January 2017

    Nnedi Okorafor is an acclaimed Nigerian-American author of science fiction,
    fantasy, and magic realism whose work has won the World Fantasy Award for Best
    Novel and the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature, among others. She
    teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Buffalo.

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    PROLOGUE

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  • ABOUT OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
    She described herself as, “I’m

    black, I’m solitary, I’ve always

    been an outsider”—but she left off

    “extraordinary.”

    Octavia Estelle Butler was indeed

    a most extraordinary writer. Often

    referred to as the “grande dame of

    science fiction,” she is the author

    of a short story collection and more

    than a dozen novels, which have been

    translated into ten languages. Her

    work garnered two Hugo Awards, two

    Nebula Awards, and the PEN Lifetime

    Achievement Award. She was the first

    science fiction writer to win a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.

    Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. A graduate of

    Pasadena Community College, she also attended California State University

    and UCLA. When she participated in the Clarion Science Fiction Writing

    Workshop, she attracted the attention of the famous science fiction writer

    and editor Harlan Ellison, who gave her a typewriter and bought Butler’s first

    professional story.

    Butler began writing as a child and was an avid reader of science fiction—

    which she couldn’t help but notice never included characters like herself.

    Many of her novels, such as Kindred, feature strong, black, female protagonists

    struggling with complicated issues of survival. She was a master of powerful,

    realistic prose that supported inventive genre narratives, and most important

    explored the deepest, often disturbing possibilities of human relationships.

    A list of Octavia Butler’s books can be found on page 240.

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  • ABOUT THE ADAPTOR
    Damian Duffy is a cartoonist, writer,

    and letterer, and the co-editor of
    Black Comix: African American Independent

    Comics Art & Culture. He holds a PhD

    in Library and Information Science

    from the University of Illinois at

    Urbana-Champaign.

    ABOUT THE ARTIST
    John Jennings co-edited the

    Eisner Award–winning anthology

    The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of

    Black Identity in Comics and Sequential

    Art. He is professor of media and

    cultural studies at the University

    of California at Riverside and was

    awarded the Nasir Jones HipHop

    Fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins

    Center for African & African

    American Research.

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  • FOR FURTHER READING BY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
    Patternist Series

    Patternmaster

    Mind of My Mind

    Survivor

    Wild Seed

    Clay’s Ark

    Seed to Harvest (omnibus)

    Xenogenesis Series

    Dawn

    Adulthood Rites

    Imago

    Xenogenesis (omnibus)

    Lilith’s Brood (omnibus)

    Parable Series

    Parable of the Sower

    Parable of the Talents

    Stand-Alone Novels

    Kindred

    Fledgling

    Short Story Collections

    Bloodchild and Other Stories

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    All encompassing thanks to Sheila Keenan for making this book exist.

    More thanks to Charlie Kochman, Susan Van Metre, Pamela Notarantonio,

    Chad W. Beckerman, Michael Clark, Kathy Lovisolo, Melissa Esner,

    and Maya Bradford.

    Further thanks to Alex Batchelor, Anthony Moncada, Stacey Robinson,

    Solomon Robinson, and Tim Fielder. Thank you again to the Octavia E.

    Butler estate, and thank you always to Octavia E. Butler.

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    ABRAMS COMICARTS • NEW YORK
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    A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
    O C T A V I A E . B U T L E R ’ S
    “A glorious tribute to Octavia Butler’s masterpiece. Extraordinary.”
    —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
    I LOST AN ARM ON MY LAST TRIP HOME.

    Home is a new house with a loving husband
    in 1970s California that is suddenly
    transformed into the frightening world of
    the antebellum South.

    Dana, a young black writer, can’t explain
    how she is transported across time and
    space to a plantation in Maryland. But she
    does quickly understand why: to deal with
    the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white
    slaveholder—and her progenitor.
    Her survival, her very existence, depends
    on it.
    This searing graphic-novel adaptation of
    Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction classic is a
    powerfully moving, unflinching look at the
    violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the
    people it chained together, both black and
    white—and made kindred in the deepest sense
    of the word.
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    “Kindred is a perfect candidate for the graphic-novel medium—Damian Duffy’s
    taut adaptation and John Jennings’s tense, electric renderings vibrate
    throughout, pacing and containing, then pushing every ounce of discomfort
    to the forefront. Comics and science fiction exploit their greatest
    shared strength by illuminating the mundane that surrounds us, allowing
    any reader to critique and process our world with new vision.”
    —Nate Powell, Eisner Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling
    graphic novelist of March, The Year of the Beasts, and Swallow Me Whole

    “Wonderful. Captures the essence of Octavia Butler’s vision even as it
    demonstrates the superlative skills of Damian Duffy and John Jennings.”
    —Nalo Hopkinson, author of Skin Folk, The New Moon’s Arms,
    and Sister Mine; winner of the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards
    and the Prix Aurora Prize
    Octavia E. Butler was the MacArthur “Genius,”
    Nebula Award, and Hugo Award–winning author
    of numerous books. She is considered one of
    America’s most prominent science fiction writers.
    Damian Duffy is a cartoonist, writer, and letterer,
    and the co-editor of Black Comix: African American
    Independent Comics Art & Culture. He holds a PhD
    in Library and Information Science from the
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    John Jennings co-edited the Eisner Award–winning
    anthology The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black
    Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. He is professor
    of media and cultural studies at the University of
    California at Riverside and was awarded the Nasir
    Jones HipHop Fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins
    Center for African & African American Research.
    Nnedi Okorafor is an acclaimed Nigerian-American
    author of science fiction, fantasy, and magic
    realism whose work has won the World Fantasy
    Award for Best Novel and the Wole Soyinka Prize
    for African Literature, among others. She teaches
    creative writing and literature at the University
    of Buffalo.

    COVER ILLUSTRATION © 2017 JOHN JENNINGS

    COVER DESIGN BY PAMELA NOTARANTONIO
    A N I M P R I N T O F A B R A M S
    PRINTED IN CHINA

    U.S. $24.95 Can. $29.95 U.K. £15.99
    ISBN 978-1-4197-0947-0

    www.abramscomicarts.com
    @abramsbooks
    DUFFY /
    JENNINGS
    A GRAPHIC NOVEL
    ADAPTATION

    A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
    O C T A V I A E . B U T L E R ’ S
    “A glorious tribute to Octavia Butler’s masterpiece. Extraordinary.”
    —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
    I LOST AN ARM ON MY LAST TRIP HOME.
    Home is a new house with a loving husband
    in 1970s California that is suddenly
    transformed into the frightening world of
    the antebellum South.
    Dana, a young black writer, can’t explain
    how she is transported across time and
    space to a plantation in Maryland. But she
    does quickly understand why: to deal with
    the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white
    slaveholder—and her progenitor.
    Her survival, her very existence, depends
    on it.
    This searing graphic-novel adaptation of
    Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction classic is a
    powerfully moving, unflinching look at the
    violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the
    people it chained together, both black and
    white—and made kindred in the deepest sense
    of the word.
    U
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    Introduction by Nnedi Okorafor
    “Kindred is a perfect candidate for the graphic-novel medium—Damian Duffy’s
    taut adaptation and John Jennings’s tense, electric renderings vibrate
    throughout, pacing and containing, then pushing every ounce of discomfort
    to the forefront. Comics and science fiction exploit their greatest
    shared strength by illuminating the mundane that surrounds us, allowing
    any reader to critique and process our world with new vision.”
    —Nate Powell, Eisner Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling
    graphic novelist of March, The Year of the Beasts, and Swallow Me Whole

    “Wonderful. Captures the essence of Octavia Butler’s vision even as it
    demonstrates the superlative skills of Damian Duffy and John Jennings.”
    —Nalo Hopkinson, author of Skin Folk, The New Moon’s Arms,
    and Sister Mine; winner of the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards
    and the Prix Aurora Prize
    Octavia E. Butler was the MacArthur “Genius,”
    Nebula Award, and Hugo Award–winning author
    of numerous books. She is considered one of
    America’s most prominent science fiction writers.
    Damian Duffy is a cartoonist, writer, and letterer,
    and the co-editor of Black Comix: African American
    Independent Comics Art & Culture. He holds a PhD
    in Library and Information Science from the
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    John Jennings co-edited the Eisner Award–winning
    anthology The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black
    Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. He is professor
    of media and cultural studies at the University of
    California at Riverside and was awarded the Nasir
    Jones HipHop Fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins
    Center for African & African American Research.
    Nnedi Okorafor is an acclaimed Nigerian-American
    author of science fiction, fantasy, and magic
    realism whose work has won the World Fantasy
    Award for Best Novel and the Wole Soyinka Prize
    for African Literature, among others. She teaches
    creative writing and literature at the University
    of Buffalo.
    COVER ILLUSTRATION © 2017 JOHN JENNINGS
    COVER DESIGN BY PAMELA NOTARANTONIO
    A N I M P R I N T O F A B R A M S
    PRINTED IN CHINA
    U.S. $24.95 Can. $29.95 U.K. £15.99
    ISBN 978-1-4197-0947-0
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    @abramsbooks
    DUFFY /
    JENNINGS
    A GRAPHIC NOVEL
    ADAPTATION

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