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Furious that Rufus lied to her, Dana runs away to find Kevin, but is betrayed by a jealous slave, Liza. Rufus and Weylin capture her and Weylin whips her brutally. When Weylin learns that Rufus failed to keep his promise to Dana to send her letters, he writes to Kevin and tells him that Dana is on the plantation. Kevin comes to retrieve Dana ...
In the article “Slavery and Symbiosis in Octavia Butler’s Kindred” by Pamela Bedore the author discusses the symbiotic relationship between Dana and Rufus and how the lines are blurred. Dana and Rufus struggle with mutual dependency throughout the novel, it is very difficult to tell who needs who.
Kindred (first published in 1979) is a bestselling novel by the award-winning American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler. Widely popular, Kindred is regularly chosen as a common reading by community-wide reading programs and book organizations as well as being a consistent text choice for high school and college courses.
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In Kindred, Dana, an African-American woman, is repeatedly transported in time between 1976 Los Angeles and an early 19th-century plantation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. There she meets ancestors: Alice, a free black woman forced into slavery later in life, and Rufus, the white son of a planter who also becomes a slaveholder. In "Near of ...
FX has canceled “Kindred,” the series based on the Octavia E. Butler Hugo Award-winning 1979 novel of the same name, The post FX cancels ‘Kindred’ after one season appeared first on TheGrio.