Kindred CRR: Question 4
In the early antebellum South, there was a clear power structure ranging from white, property owning males down to black, enslaved women. In the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, Black females are treated subhuman and sexually abused by whites on the plantation. The protagonist, Dana, is involved in these situations but is not complicit, for she has very little power to stop the actions of whites in the antebellum South. Throughout the novel, Dana time travels back and forth to the South to try to keep Rufus, an ancestor of hers alive, and also has the power to talk to him and convince him thing because he treats her differently. This creates a problem for her later in the book because Rufus is constantly causing complications
In the early antebellum South, there was a clear power structure ranging from white, property owning males down to black, enslaved women. In the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, Black females are treated subhuman and sexually abused by whites on the plantation. The protagonist, Dana, is involved in these situations but is not complicit, for she has very little power to stop the actions of whites in the antebellum South. Throughout the novel, Dana time travels back and forth to the South to try to keep Rufus, an ancestor of hers alive, and also has the power to talk to him and convince him thing because he treats her differently. This creates a problem for her later in the book because Rufus is constantly causing complications