Butler depicts the complicated dynamics and power struggles of many different types of interracial relationships, in the romantic relationship between Dana and Kevin, the master-slave relationship between Rufus and Alice, and the complex familial relationship between Dana and Rufus. In Dana and Kevin’...
Relationship between Dana and Rufus in Octavia E. Butler's ‘Kindred’ 3 Pages1176 Words Reviewed ‘Kindred’, by Octavia E. Butler, tells the story of Dana, a 26-year-old African American woman from the 1970s, who is constantly called into the 19th century antebellum South by her white...
just like his father makes women slaves persist through hardships: “ Sent me to the field had me beaten made me spend nearly eight months sleeping on the floor” (Butler 245). Rufus has Dana beaten and sent to the field, so he can somebody making Dana persists through his anger and ...
Rufus, Dana’s white relative. Between the struggle of black and white, and slave and master we see the struggle of their relationship both in present and past time. Before informing of their race Octavia informs the reader of Dana and Kevin’s love for each other before race rather than ...
Season 1 ended with Dana returning to 2016 after being violently whipped by Thomas (True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten), where she concluded that keeping Rufus alive until her next ancestor was born might make the jumps stop. As Dana braced for a return to the past, Denise received a startling pho...
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Season 1 ended with Dana returning to 2016 after being violently whipped by Thomas (True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten), where she concluded that keeping Rufus alive until her next ancestor was born might make the jumps stop. As Dana braced for a return to the past, Denise received a startling pho...