Kindred | Suggested Reading

Here are some suggested reading materials and online resources to help you get a better understanding of Octavia Butler's Kindred. In addition, we've listed some articles and other books that are similar to Kindred that you may enjoy.

Reading Materials

Butler, Octavia. "Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre: Interview with Octavia Butler." Interview by Frances M. Beal. Black Scholar 17 (March–April 1986): 14–18. Print.

Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann. Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered. Westport: Greenwood, 1999. Print.

Jacobs, Harriet A., and Frederick Douglass. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl & Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Two Memoirs of Notable African-Americans during the Nineteenth Century. N.p.: Leonaur, 2011. Print.

Jesser, Nancy. "Blood, Genes and Gender in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Dawn." Extrapolation 43 (Spring 2002): 36–61. Web. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/extr.2002.43.1.05

Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1991. Print.

Course Hero. "Kindred Infographic." Course Hero. 23 May 2016. Web. 22 June 2020. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Kindred/infographic/>.