Humanities Homework Help

ENGL 342 Violence in Kindred by Octavia Butler Discussion Questions

 

I’m studying and need help with a English question to help me learn.

1) How does Octavia Butler depict race and race relations? In what ways, and to what extent, does Dana work against the sociocultural conditions of the past?

1) How does Octavia Butler depict race and race relations? In what ways, and to what extent, does Dana work against the sociocultural conditions of the past?

2) How is Butler’s novel and the characters she develops shaped by violence? In what ways and for what purposes does violence enter the text?

3) What does the novel have to say about the importance of recovering alternative versions of history? Whose history is remembered and reimagined? Whose is lost?

4) What does Kindred have to say about power relations? How and why does the character of Rufus evolve throughout the text?