Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
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Join us for discussions about Octavia Butler's Kindred throughout the Spring Semester:
11:00am - 12:15pm in Student Center, Room H105
Resources for the themes being discussed are available under each corresponding tab. Copies of Kindred are available at the FCC Bookstore and the Learning Commons.
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