Free Essay: Dana and Kevin character analysis Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred takes place in the ante-bellum southern United States while showing readers the...
Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’ traces central protagonist, Dana Franklin’s genealogy by physically ‘returning’ her to her slave past in antebellum Maryland. By deconstructing the body of the female slave Butler uses Dana’s body as the site for historical markings, so that she is literally and...
Character Analysis Of Rufus In 'Kindred' To begin with, Rufus was born and brought in the Antebellum South, which was filled with horrible institutions like slavery and the ideas that came with it. Additionally, as Rufus grew up he saw slaves being treated horribly and later through Dana and...