The story explores various dynamics and dilemmas of pre-war slavery from the sensibility of a late-twentieth-century African-American, who is aware of its brutal and disturbing legacy in contemporary American society and culture Mainly through the two interracial ‘couples’ (Rufus & Alice and Dana & Kevin), who form the emotional plot of the story, the novel attempts to touch upon the interconnected issues of power, gender, and ethnicity issues and speculates on the idealism of future equality. The book is written in the first-person perspective of an African-American woman, named Dana, who finds herself being transported between ‘present’ time Los Angeles, California in 1976 and a pre-Civil War Maryland slave plantation. “Kindred” is a novel by Octavia Butler that includes aspects of the time-travel genre and is based on a slave narrative perspective.
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