Butler, Octavia E. (Octavia Estelle) 1947-2006 creator text bibliography Psychological fiction. Science fiction. mau Boston Beacon Press 2004 monographic eng

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287 p. ; 21 cm. 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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun. The River The Fire The Fall The Fight The Storm The Rope Reader's Guide Critical Essay Octavia E. Butler. n-us-ca n-usu-- African American women Fiction Slaveholders Fiction Time travel Fiction Slavery Fiction Slaves Fiction Novela estadounidense Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Southern States Fiction PS 3552 B986k 2004 813/.54 0807083690 (paperback) 9780807083697 (paperback) 2003062862 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm041/2003062862.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2003062862-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm041/2003062862.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2003062862-b.html DLC 030909 20230411090805.0 13337061