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Kindred by Octavia Butler: Research Guide
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- Kindred: Overview from Bloom's LiterarureOctavia Butler is one of a handful of African-American science fiction writers; there were even fewer in 1979, when Kindred was published. 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
- The Visions of Octavia ButlerAs a science fiction writer, Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. On the eve of a major revival of her work, this is the story of how she came to see a future that is now our present.
- The Personal is Historical: Slavery, Black Power and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred andThe year 1966 marked Stokely Carmichael's first invocation of "Black Power" and the birth of the Black Panthers in Oakland. As a student at Pasadena City College in the late 1960s Octavia Butler encountered the politics of a growing student Black Power movement—a memorable moment in her literary and political development which marks the genesis of her novel, Kindred. The student political movement Butler encountered and participated in at Pasadena City College became a microcosm for debates playing out on the national stage, as strategic questions of resistance rose to prominence, including the right to self-defense, interracial relationships and solidarity, and the efficacy of direct action and negotiation as political strategies. Published a decade later, Kindred is Butler's attempt to resolve her "sixties feelings" and her conflicted views on the political movements of the period while grappling with the cost of their demise. In this article, I analyze Kindred as a meditation on political debates that arose from the Black Power movement, exploring how the novel engages with the debates of the period while highlighting the continuities between the resistance of Butler's generation and generations past.
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Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination by Call Number: https://ncc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=2335830&site=ehost-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_83ISBN: 9780295746630Publication Date: 2020-01-05From Kara Walker?s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty?s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead?s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele?s body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging ?alternate takes? on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically examining how artists growing up in the post?Civil Rights era have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination positions post-blackness as a productive category of analysis that brings into sharp focus recent developments in black cultural productions across various media. These ten essays investigate how millennial black cultural productions trouble long-held notions of blackness by challenging limiting scripts. They interrogate political as well as formal interventions into established discourses to demonstrate how explorations of black identities frequently go hand in hand with the purposeful refiguring of slavery?s prevailing tropes, narratives, and images. A V Ethel Willis White Book
See Chapter Four of the above eBook: "Getting Graphic with Kindred: the Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement."
Criticism
- Octavia E. Butler’s Response to Black Arts/ Black Power Literature and Rhetoric in KindredOctavia E. Butler’s Response to Black Arts/
Black Power Literature and Rhetoric in Kindred - Empathetic Trappings: Revisiting the Nineteenth Century in Octavia Butler's KindredOctavia Butler's 1979 novel,
Kindred , is a postmodern slave narrative that redefines the previous literary constructions of slavery in the United States. Through its rejection of the nineteenth century slave narrative and sentimental novel,Kindred highlights the main problem with nineteenth century narrative empathy: Forging an intimate identification between reader and character to enact empathy is founded through the representation of bodies in pain. - ‘‘It’s Almost Like Being There’’: Speculative Fiction, Slave Narrative, and the Crisis of Representation in Octavia Butler’s Kindred‘‘It’s Almost Like Being
There’’: Speculative
Fiction, Slave Narrative,
and the Crisis of Representation in Octavia
Butler’s Kindred - Reproducing Time, Reproducing History: Love and Black Feminist Sentimentality in Octavia Butler's KindredReproducing Time, Reproducing History:
Love and Black Feminist Sentimentality in
Octavia Butler's Kindred
Essay Topics for Kindred
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