This paper will focus on Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation (2017) by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. In the process, she has to adapt to a time and place where she is regarded and treated as a slave. In Butler’s novel, African American Dana, who is its narrator and protagonist, is repeatedly thrown back in time from her house in Pasadena, California, in 1976, in order to save her white ancestor’s life in Maryland in the early 1800s time and again. In the 1990s, I analyzed science-fiction writer Octavia Butler’s 1979 neoslave narrative Kindred by employing Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, which focuses on how time and space are fused together and form a whole in literature. Join this lively discussion with Graphic Arts Curator Julie Mellby, focusing on the development of a graphic adaptation of classic literature, along with a look at their future projects.2022 (English) Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic) Abstract Their adaptations capture the energy and raw emotion of Butler’s prose with visual acrobatics and succinct verbal interchanges. Residents shelter indoors, warned against venturing outside into a world eerily similar to our contemporary COVID-19 existence.Īdapting 'Parable' and 'Kindred' to a graphic novel format is an astounding achievement, and we are fortunate to have both Damian Duffy and John Jennings with us to discuss how they accomplished it. Set in the year 2024, Parable presents a country marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos.

Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel offers a searing vision of America’s future. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and illustrator John Jennings, the follow-up to the no.1 New York Times bestseller 'Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation' by the same award-winning team.

January 2020 brought the release of the much anticipated 'Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation' by Octavia E.

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