![]() ![]() (from Bloom's Literature, Infobase: Full Artice: Click Here.įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur "Genius" Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. She begins the text with her arm fused to a wall of her home how she got there is the concern of the rest of the text and a mystery with which the reader is instantly engaged. The heroine of the text is a black woman (Dana), as are the protagonists of many of Butler's novels and short stories like them, Dana must come to grips with racism and assert ownership over herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her readers would likely argue against such external limitations on the scope of Butler's text as well, because she appeals to those in ethnic and women's studies as well. In February 2004, the 25th-anniversary edition of the text was released in the United Kingdom and the United States. Butler's fourth novel, Kindred is generally shelved in the science fiction section, although Butler argues against such definition because the text, which utilizes the trope of time travel in order to place its heroine in antebellum Maryland, does not describe the science of this trope. Octavia Butler is one of a handful of African-American science fiction writers there were even fewer in 1979, when Kindred was published. ![]()
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