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The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us -- along with her Black female hero -- through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband w...

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Main Author: Butler, Octavia E. (Author)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2004.
Subjects:
African American women > Fiction.
Slaveholders > Fiction.
Time travel > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Slaves > Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.
Southern States > Fiction.
Time-travel fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Afrofuturist fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Science fiction.
Electronic books.
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Summary: The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us -- along with her Black female hero -- through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. 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 to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Audience: Text Difficulty 2 - Text Difficulty 3
UG/Upper grades (9th-12)
580
4
ISBN: 9780807083703
Author Notes: Science-fiction writer and novelist Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She earned as Associate of Arts degree from Pasadena City College in 1968 and later attended California State University and the University of California.

Her first novel, Patternmaster, was the first in a series about a society run by a group of telepaths who are mentally linked to one another. She explored the topics of race, poverty, politics, religion, and human nature in her works. She won a Hugo Award in 1984 for her short story Speech Sounds and a Hugo Award and Nebula Award in 1985 for her novella Bloodchild. She received a MacArthur Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The award pays $295,000 over a five-year period to creative people who push the boundaries of their fields. She died in Lake Forest Park, Washington on February 24, 2006 at the age of 58.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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