![]() ![]() He acts friendly & even loving at some points, only to turn on a dime and become a vicious monster. But with Dana's ancestor Rufus, it's not so cut & dry. If someone is 100% horrible, like the overseers, it is simple to hate them and fear them. What makes Dana's situation in Kindred so spooky and upsetting is how the white people in the story are so unpredictable in their behavior, and how enmeshed their lives are with the slaves they own. However, the analogy to a Jew in Hitler's Germany isn't quite apt since in that situation it's much easier to see the Nazis as pure evil, only out to hurt Jewish people. ![]() The thought of a modern day black person being transported back to the Antebellum South is scary, similar to a modern Jewish person being transported back to Germany in the 1930's. ![]() Add into that mix a book dealing with the roles of race and gender and you've got Kindred. I'm a sucker for time travel books and also for historical fiction. Loved both the unique premise of the book and how the author developed the story. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |