Feminism In Kindred

Octavia Estelle Butler, a black woman writer who devoted her life to produce a great series of American science fictions. Among all the works of literature that she wrote, the novel, Kindred, stands up to be one of her few science fictions describing the slavery. She makes a fabulous effort to add the element of science into slavery, which no one will think of it to be related to any scientific component. In Kindred, Butler represents the gloomy history of African American in the 18th century in a subtle and intricate way. She uses the concept of time traveling with the element of fabulism and the kinship between the protagonist and antagonist in this novel. She wants to make a fantastic and yet pragmatic claim about the struggling of African American through the experience of a black and female protagonist. This claim reveals that …show more content…
In terms of the first theme in sequence, Butler exhibits the benefit of being an erudite person when she creates a protagonist just like her. Extracted from the Kindred, Dana’s survival in the 18th century is rather painless and trouble-free compared to other black slaves. It is because she seems to have the ability to make the white people, especially her white “master”, be afraid of her. She even earns the respects of those detestable white people at some points, particularly when she applies her modern medical knowledge to cure Rufus and a black slave who Rufus “loves”. However, even though Dana is not influenced by the slavery as much as other slaves, she is impacted by the slaves around her, her family during her time there, to be precise. A critique from Lisa Yaszek for this literature also discloses that “the impact of slavery not just on isolated individuals but on entire families and networks of