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Octavia E. Butler
Paperback | Pages: 287 pages Rating: 4.24 | 83857 Users | 9762 Reviews
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| Title | : | Kindred |
| Author | : | Octavia E. Butler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 287 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2004 by Beacon Press (first published June 1979) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Time Travel |
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The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given...Specify Books In Favor Of Kindred
| Original Title: | Kindred |
| ISBN: | 0807083690 (ISBN13: 9780807083697) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dana Franklin, Kevin Franklin, Rufus Weylin, Tom Weylin, Margaret Weylin, Alice Greenwood |
| Setting: | Maryland(United States) Altadena, California,1976(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1980) |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 83857 Users | 9762 ReviewsCritique Regarding Books Kindred
Kindred is about a woman named Dana who gets transported/time-travels back to the past. She travels way back to the time when her great-great-grandparents were alive. This also happens to be a time of slavery. Dana is a black woman from the 1970s who is married to a white man. Each time she is thrown into the past, she has to learn how to live and survive in this time while staying true to herself. I love books about time travel. One of my top favorite reads of all time (The Time Travelers Wife)On October 5, 2004, Octavia E. Butler visited my graduate university to give a lecture and book signing. I was really impressed by her. She actually spent several hours at the university, giving a public interview with one of the professors, then a short lecture to a large auditorium, then a book signing. I even skipped class in order to attend. The interview was really fascinating, where Butler answered questions about how she worked to write Kindred and how she felt about the characters and
She had done the safe thing-had accepted a life of slavery because she was afraid.Kindred is a novel I would not have picked up on my own, but it was a book club selection so I dutifully read it. Although I do not think it is a great text, it is a good story. When I accepted the limitations inherent in a story about time travel, and focused on the aspects of the writing that are quite good, and not those that are weak, I found I read it quickly and was no worse for the wear.In short, the story
In honor of Science Fiction and Fantasy Week, I am finally taking this book from my TBR queue and actually reading it. The author called this a grim fantasy and the description fits. Im not a big fan of SF or fantasy, but a dear friend of mine has been touting this book for ages and its time for me to set aside the netgalley queue for a few days. Dana becomes the victim of unwanted time travel. She doesnt know why its happening but all of a sudden shes being transported back to early 1800s
A unique look at slave-era America thanks to a time-traveling twist. Should be shelved with the classics. Riveting from the first page and doesnt let up.Im always a fan of throwing in a little sci-fi, but here it really, really works. Most novels on this subject tend to look at race relations from one time period. Nothing wrong with that, but there was something wholly shocking and eye-opening about having these characters hop from a modern (1970s) lens to pre-Civil War society.This is my first
I remember the astonished fear I felt when I read Primo Levi in High-school and realized how easily one can go along with dehumanization in order to save his life. As much as we humans like hiding behind false truths, we're merely trying to go easy on ourselves and to maintain our breakable feeling of control. We don't control shit. From the moment I read Holocaust accounts, I've met a lot of people assuring me that these days wouldn't ever happen again because people would fight harder and
This is pretty much a historical novel with a bit of SF icing, focusing almost exclusively on the relationships built between a mid-1970's modern black woman who is continually sent back in time to save an ancestor from an early death. Unfortunately for her, she's a black woman on a slave plantation, and she's stuck there for a disproportionately long time, sometimes even bringing her white husband back into the past with her and sometimes leaving him behind. Theres a ton of time dilation, where
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