How do the characters in Kindred assume the roles assigned them? How do they resist?

In
, the person who has the most difficulty accepting her role in the past is
Dana. Although she understands that she must, at the very least, help Rufus stay alive, she
finds it morally repugnant to support a white racist and rapist. She feels that she can change
him for the better, not wanting to admit theof that perspective. The intellectual part of her
knows that sexual abuse of black women was widespread and that is therefore very likely that her
own...