Discussion
Octavia Butler is perhaps the most renowned female African American author of science fiction, a genre dominated by white men. Kindred is a soft science fiction novel that doesn't employ of a lot of science fiction tropes (e.g., aliens, space exploration, robots, etc.). The only trope Butler uses, in fact, is time travel, and the means by which Dana travels back and forth in time from her present (the late 1970s) to antebellum Maryland remains a mystery from beginning to end. In many of her science fiction stories and novels, Butler dealt with the otherness and alienness of individuals who find themselves in a foreign environment. How is this represented in Kindred? 500-750 words. DUE DATE: Friday, Dec. 1, 9 a.m.