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Kindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives.Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide reading programs and book organizations, and for high school and college courses.
She portrayed Dana James in the 2022 television series Kindred. [2] [3] [4] She also appeared in the 2022 miniseries WeCrashed. [5] Johnson was born in San Diego. [6] She graduated from the Juilliard School in 2021. [7] [8]
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 ...
In the trailer, Dana, who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, wakes on a riverbank in a FX's 'Kindred' Brings Octavia Butler's Classic Time Travel Novel to ...
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Kindred is an American science fiction television series developed by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and based on the 1979 novel of the same name written by Octavia E. Butler. The series premiered with eight episodes on December 13, 2022, on FX on Hulu .
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This following passage, describing Dana's first sighting of an iceberg off Cape Horn, "reminds us of Melville" and "other passages seem to anticipate him". (Melville, born in 1819, was exactly four years Dana's junior, and returned from his first tour as a seaman when Two Years Before the Mast was first published in 1840): [11]