{"title":"The Trouble: Family, Genre, and Hybridity in Octavia Butler's Kindred","authors":"K. L. Wiggs","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay analyzes the protagonist of Octavia Butler's Kindred as a multiracial character whose familial relationships define her identity. Examining conventions of genre and theories of race construction, I show that Butler uses Dana's hybridity to comment on contemporary constructions of identity in the United States.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay analyzes the protagonist of Octavia Butler's Kindred as a multiracial character whose familial relationships define her identity. Examining conventions of genre and theories of race construction, I show that Butler uses Dana's hybridity to comment on contemporary constructions of identity in the United States.