Abstract：Octavia Butler’s Kindred employs the devices of science fiction, speculative neo-slave narrative, and historical narrative to represent history. By using one of the oldest imaginative devices, time travel, Kindred maps the often uncanny interlocutions of race, gender, and history, interrogating how these elements work together through interlocking sets of representations to trigger people’s probe into American reality of racial and gender relationship. Neo-slave narrative helps to represent the unrepresentable history; science fiction contributes to speaking the unspeakable trauma of Afro-American people, especially that of black women; historical writings allegorize the historical and symbiotic relation between Afro-Americans and White people. Kindred suggests that White and Black Americans are interconnected kindred sharing mutual historical experiences together. In order to avoid the repetition of history, all American people, Black or White, have to know the truth of history in light of historical memory and revisiting the past, and reconsider the concept of freedom and national fate in the context of present America.
李美芹. 论巴特勒小说《家族》中的历史书写和政治隐喻[J]. 浙江工商大学学报, 2018, 32(1): 18-24.
LI Meiqin. On the Historical Writings and Political Metaphor in Butler's Kindred. Journal of Zhejing Gongshang University, 2018, 32(1): 18-24.
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