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Jun 1, 1979 · 221,999 ratings24,498 reviews. The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
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- Octavia E. Butler
Jan 15, 2021 · Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, “Kindred” is controlled and precise. Butler stages slavery as a site of pain and...
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- A Plunge in The Deep End
- The Precariousness of Racial Injustice
- A Transgenerational Lesson For Posterity
Octavia E. Butler – through ‘Kindred’ – dares to tackle a range of interesting topics which are considered very complicated and controversial to handle. And despite being written by a Black author, the book doesn’t show signs of pontification. After reading ‘Kindred’, I’m left with one thought: It’s a brave and courageous book, and Butler must have...
Butler is one of the first science fiction genre writers to unite gender, ethnicity, and race with the intricacies of time travel. And although her book ‘Kindred’ is mostly classified as belonging to sci-fi, interracial matters clearly top the list of important agendas discussed for the most part of the book. In ‘Kindred’, Butler tries to compare l...
Despite a torturous description of a world where one race dominated over the other – followed by a subsequent sufficing of actions that are abusive as they are dehumanizing, for posterity, the most important take away from Butler’s groundbreaking book ‘Kindred’ is the need for all of the human race to stand together in unity, and recognize that we ...
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Feb 28, 2009 · KINDRED. by Octavia E. Butler ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 28, 2009. bookshelf. shop now. Butler is one of those accomplished science-fiction writers ( Mind of My Mind, 1977; Survivor, 1978) who tap out their tales so fast and fine and clear that it's impossible to stop reading at any point.
- Octavia E. Butler
Dec 13, 2022 · Kindred is where Butler’s lessons on writing with closely felt details and nuanced physicality are on full display. Time-travel stories had been a staple of science-fiction for decades, but we...
Dec 12, 2022 · By Mike Hale. Published Dec. 12, 2022 Updated Dec. 16, 2022. The hallmark of Octavia E. Butler ’s beloved novel “Kindred” is its believability. You may race through the book because it’s a...
Nov 17, 2022 · “Kindred,” her now canonical 1979 novel about a Black woman who is yanked back in time to the antebellum South and marooned on a working plantation, will premiere as a TV series from FX in ...
