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   as we know them, preclude traveling backwards in time, such a book would have to be a hybrid of autobiographical narrative and scientific fantasy. That is exactly the sort of book Octavia Butler imagined when she wrote Kindred, first published in 1979. Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.

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   Feb 1, 2004 · Kindred. Octavia Butler. Beacon Press, Feb 1, 2004 - Fiction - 288 pages. Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS.

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   Jun 1, 1979 · Octavia Butler's Kindred tells a gripping tale and reminds us of how we must not let the stories of our past happen again. 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 ...

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   From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner. The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

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   Kindred. Kindred premieres this November (2022) on Hulu. The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and...

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   Kindred's main character, Dana, must endure the inexplicable time travel between her life in 1976 and the pre-war South, on top of dealing with the realities of being a slave when she...

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   Is 'kindred' a good book?

   • [Kindred] is a shatter¬ ing work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now'' —Los Angeles Herald Examiner “Truly terrifying. . . . This is a book you’ll find hard to put down.” —Essence Octavia Butler is the author of eight novels, the most recent of which is Adulthood Rites. She lives in Los Angeles.

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   Is kindred a science fiction book?

   • Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint place Kindred as a key science fiction literary text of the 1960s and 1970s black consciousness period, noting that Butler uses the time travel trope to underscore the perpetuation of past racial discrimination into the present and, perhaps, the future of America.

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   Is kindred a horror novel?

   • The Austin Chronicle writer Barbara Strickland declared Kindred to be "as much a novel of psychological horror as it is a novel of science fiction." High school and college courses have frequently chosen Kindred as a text to be read.

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   Is kindred a neo-slave novel?

   • Critics who emphasize Kindred' s exploration of the grim realities of antebellum slavery tend to classify it mainly as a neo-slave narrative. Jane Donawerth traces Butler's novel to the recovery of slave narratives during the 1960s, a form then adapted by female science fiction writers to their own fantastical worlds.

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   Is kindred a first-person novel?

   • 36) At such moments of first-person intensity, Kindred reveals its own literary kinship with the memoirs of ex-slaves published in the nineteenth century, for Butler’s greatest achievement in the novel is her collapsing of the genres of the fantastic travelogue and the slave narrative.

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   Is kindred a true story?

   • Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth. Kindred begins and ends in mystery. On June 9, 1976, her twenty- sixth birthday, Edana, a black woman moving with her white husband Kevin Franklin to a new house in a Los Angeles suburb, is overcome by nausea while unpacking cartons.

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   Kindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives. Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide reading programs and book organizations, and for high school and college courses.