Stereotypes are often addressed in Butlers novels, including Kindred. In Kindred, how does the author, with her various characterizations, reveal...

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features a , Dana, who is a black woman in the 1970s in California. Dana
gets mysteriously, and without much warning, pulled back into the antebellum South to learn
about her family origins.

As she is transported to the South, Dana is
assumed to be a slave. She must learn to adjust to life on the plantation despite always having
been free in her "real life" in the 1970s. During this time, she of course learns
about racism and comes face-to-face with the brutal treatment of her ancestors, including a
foremother named Alice. Over the...