Kindred-The Time Travel Factor
Kindred The Time Travel by: Pedro Oliveira de Miranda Kindred, a novel published in 1979 by the African American writer Octavia E. Butler, important figure in the science fiction landscape, tells the story of Dana, a Black women from the 20th century who is mysteriously transported to a different period of time from the one she was present on. Dana appears inside of a plantation during the slavery era in the United States, forcing her to face the violence and oppression of the relations related to this period. However, Butler didn't use time travel merely as a narrative device, but instead a complex metaphor that exposes the connection between past and future. One of the main functions of time travel in Kindred is its ability to eliminate the distance between the past and the present, used by the author to force both Dana and the reader to face and confront the history not as something distant and immutable, but as an ong...