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The Trouble: Family, Genre, and Hybridity in Octavia Butler's Kindred
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.