Kindred

Title: Kindred
Abstract/Description: Octavia Butler makes Faulkner's aphorism about the past not being past literal in this tale of a modern black woman, Dana, who is drawn unwittingly back through time to the Antebellum South to interact with her ancestors. Dana is pulled back and forth between past and present, each stay in the slave quarters lasting longer and becoming more dangerous, and as the tension and brutality rises she struggles to understand the connections that are drawing her back in order to escape. Originally written in the?70s, Butler's portrayal of the ways that the injustices of the past are woven intimately into the fabric of our present and our inability to move forward until we gain an understanding of that rings truer than ever.
Author/creator: Butler, Octavia E.
Date: 1979
Publisher: Doubleday
Resource type: en Background/Context
Medium: en Print
Background/context type: en Other
Open access/free-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en No
Language: en
ISBN: 978-0-385-15059-0
Citation: Butler, O. E. (1979). Kindred. Doubleday.
Cited in: The Theory and Practice of Democracy and Community

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