Kindred | Social Concerns
In Kindred Octavia Butler addresses the historic tension between the antebellum and 1970s postbellum status of African Americans. There is a freedom and a right-to-privacy status in the 1970s Los Angeles home of Dana. But the society is profoundly impersonal. The first three decades of nineteenth-century American slavery culture is fictionally recreated in Kindred. The obscene irony is that this culture was deeply personal, evoked especially poignantly in the mixed-race children of the forced miscegenation of white slave-holders and the African women they enslaved and...
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