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    Ready Reference Treatise: Kindred
    Ready Reference Treatise: Kindred
    Ready Reference Treatise: Kindred
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    Ready Reference Treatise: Kindred

    By Raja Sharma

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    “Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler was first published in 1979. It is one of the bestselling science fictions. It is partly the story of time travel and partly a slave narrative. The book has continued to become more and more popular since its first publication.

    It is noticeable that “Kindred” is regularly selected as a text for community-wide reading programmes and book organizations. The book has been included in the course of study for high school and college students in several countries around the world. The book is often prescribed in the reading list to the students of English literature.

    There are few science fiction works about slavery, and that is what makes “Kindred” a unique book. The first person narrative also makes it unique among the science fiction books on the subject of slavery.

    Ready Reference Treatise: Kindred
    Copyright
    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Characters
    Chapter Four: Writing Style and Background
    Chapter Five: Complete Summary
    Chapter Six: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9781310231155
    Ready Reference Treatise: Kindred
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise - Raja Sharma

      Ready Reference Treatise: Kindred

      Copyright

      Ready Reference Treatise: Kindred

      Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Kindred by Octavia E. Butler was first published in 1979. It is one of the bestselling science fictions. It is partly the story of time travel and partly a slave narrative. The book has continued to become more and more popular since its first publication.

      It is noticeable that Kindred is regularly selected as a text for community-wide reading programmes and book organizations.

      The book has been included in the course of study for high school and college students in several countries around the world. The book is often prescribed in the reading list to the students of English literature.

      There are few science fiction works about slavery, and that is what makes Kindred a unique book. The first person narrative also makes it unique among the science fiction books on the subject of slavery.

      One day, a male classmate of the author at Pasadena City College was complaining about how his parents held him back and how he wanted to kill off older generations of African Americans. The author listened to what that classmate said. She was immediately inspired to write Kindred.

      Through the present novel the author wanted to show African American history in a visceral way. The author has attempted to present slaves as individuals in the novel. They are not typecasts.

      She presents the slaveholders in a different way. They are portrayed with equity, illustrating not only their cruelty but also their humanity.

      Dana, a young African-American writer, is the narrator of the novel. She finds herself shuttled between her home in Californian in 1976 and Maryland plantation before the Civil War in the United States.

      She comes across her ancestors. One of her ancestors is a spoiled, self-destructive white slave owner and the other is the proud black freewoman he has forced into slavery and made her his concubine.

      The narrator begins to spend more time in her past. She does get entangled with the plantation community. She has to make very difficult compromises to survive slavery, and at the same time she has to ensure her existence in her own time.

      The book provides strength to the courageous endurance of the people who were perceived a chattel`. The book also describes the structure and dilemmas of the slavery before the Civil War. It also describes how the legacy of the slavery is present in the present American society.

      The novel explores several significant themes such as power, gender, racism, discrimination, slavery, and the prospects of future egalitarianism.

      It is generally said to be a science fiction, but the author seems to have crossed disciplinary boundaries and consequently the book is often included in the category of African-American literature. According to the author, Kindred is a kind of grim fantasy."

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      The narrative begins on 9th of June4, 1976. Dana is a young black woman. It is her twenty-sixth birthday. Kevin Franklin is her white husband.

      Dana and Kevin move into their new apartment in Southern California. While unpacking their belongings, Dana does most of the work. They settle in to their new

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