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Dana. The protagonist and narrator of the novel. To save the future existence of her family, Dana must repeatedly save the life of Rufus, the man who fathered one of her ancestors. Although Rufus enslaves her and abuses her, Dana cares for him.
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On June 9, 1976, it is the twenty-sixth birthday of Dana, a...
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With its description of Dana’s amputated arm, the prologue...
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The book is the first-person account of a young African-American writer, Dana, who is repeatedly transported in time between her Los Angeles, California home in 1976 with her white husband and an early 19th-century Maryland plantation just outside Easton.
The protagonist and narrator of the novel, Dana is a black woman from 1979 California who gets pulled back in time to Antebellum Maryland to save the life of her white ancestor, Rufus Weylin. Dana is a strong, resourceful, intelligent woman, as well as a writer like her white husband Kevin.
Jun 1, 1979 · Kindred follows 26-year-old Dana, a black woman who lives in California and gets transported to the antebellum South. There, she meets Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner who will go on to sire the daughter who becomes Dana's ancestor.
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Dana begins her story as your average twenty-six year-old woman living in 1976. She doesn't make much money and she's used to living in crummy apartments, but that's about as tough as it gets for her.
Dana Timeline and Summary. Dana tells us that she has lost her arm on her "last trip home." We don't know what this is right away, but it looks as though Dana is about to tell us. After moving to a new home with her husband Kevin, Dana suddenly travels out of her house and back in time to 1815.
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With its description of Dana’s amputated arm, the prologue prefigures the extreme violence that will characterize the novel, preparing us for the physical suffering that pervades Dana’s adventures in the antebellum South. The prologue also presents authority figures as unjust and abusive.
