Kindred

Science Fiction, Novel by 奧克塔維婭·E·巴特勒

Blurb

Kindred is the bestselling novel by American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler. Part time-travel tale and part slave narrative, it was first published in 1979 and is still widely popular; it is regularly chosen as a text for community-wide reading programs and book organizations, as well as being a common choice for high school and college courses.
The book is the first-person account of a young African-American woman writer, Dana, who finds herself shuttled between her California home in 1976 and a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. There she meets her ancestors: a spoiled, self-destructive white slave owner and the proud black freewoman he has forced into slavery and concubinage. As her stays in the past become longer, Dana becomes intimately entangled with the plantation community, making hard compromises to survive slavery and to ensure her existence in her own time.
Written to underscore the courageous endurance of people perceived as chattel, Kindred examines the dynamics and dilemmas of antebellum slavery as well as its legacy in present American society.

First Published

1979

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renee.f.taylor

Renee.f.taylor

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Although not written as science fiction, there is a science fiction element due to the time travel component. However, the theme of the book is about a young African American, Dana, who travels back and forth from her 1976 present to an 1800s past of antebellum south. Dana travels to the past to save her future. The problem is, will she be able to escape the past or will she die in it?

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