Kindred Octavia E. Butler

Reviews

• Russ, Joanna. "Books". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 1980): 94–101.
• Snyder, John C. "Kindred by Octavia E. Butler", SciFiDimensions. June 2004.

Scholarship

• Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann. "'So Many Relatives': Twentieth-Century Women Meet Their Pasts." Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 109–136.
• Bast, Florian. "'No.': The Narrative Theorizing of Embodied Agency in Octavia Butler's Kindred." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 53.2 (2012): 151–81.
• Dubey, Madhu. "Speculative Fictions of Slavery." American Literature 82.4 (2010): 779–805.
• Hua, Linh U. "Reproducing Time, Reproducing History: Love And Black Feminist Sentimentality in Octavia Butler's Kindred. African American Review 44.3 (2011): 391–407.
• Jesser, Nancy. "Blood, Genes and Gender in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Dawn." Extrapolation 43.1 (2002): 36+.
• Knabe, Susan and Wendy Gay Pearson. "'Gambling Against History': Queer Kinship and Cruel Optimism in Octavia Butler's Kindred". In Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl (eds), Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013. 51–78.
• LaCroix, David. "To Touch Solid Evidence: The Implicity of Past and Present in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred", The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 40.1 (Spring 2007): 109–119.
• Levecq, Christine. "Power and Repetition: Philosophies of (Literary) History in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred", Contemporary Literature 41.3 (Fall 2000): 525–553.
• Long, Lisa. "A Relative Pain: The Rape of History in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata", College English 64.4 (March 2002): 459–483.
• McKible, Adam. "'These Are the Facts of the Darky's History': Thinking History and Reading Names in Four African American Texts", African American Review 28.2 (Summer 1994): 223–235.
• Parham, Marisa. "Saying 'Yes': Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler's Kindred". Middle Eastern & North African Writers 32.4 (Winter 2009): 1315–1331.
• Reed, Brian K. "Behold the Woman: The Imaginary Wife in Octavia Butler's Kindred". CLA Journal Al (September 2003): 66–74.
• Spaulding, A. Timothy. "The Conflation of Time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred." Re-forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. 25–60.
• Tettenborn, Eva. "Teaching Imagined Testimony: Kindred, Unchained Memories, and The African Burial Ground in Manhattan", Transformations 16.2 (Fall 2005): 87–103.
• Thompson, Carlyle van. "Moving Past the Present: Racialized Sexual Violence and Miscegenous Consumption in Octavia Butler's Kindred", Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 107–144. ISBN 978-0820479316
• Turner, Stephanie S. "'What Actually Is': The Insistence of Genre in Octavia Butler's Kindred", FEMSPEC 4.2 (2004): 259–280.
• Wagers, Kelley. "Seeing 'From the Far Side of the Hill': Narrative, History, and Understanding in Kindred and The Chaneysville Incident", MELUS 34.1 (Spring 2009): 23–45.
• Wood, Sarah. "Exorcizing the Past: The Slave Narrative as Historical Fantasy", Feminist 85 (2007): 83–96.
• Flagel, Nadine. "'It's Almost Like Being There': Speculative Fiction, Slave Narrative, and the Crisis of Representation in Octavia Butler's Kindred". Canadian Review of American Studies 42.2 (2012): 216–45.
• Robertson, Benjamin. "'Some Matching Strangeness': Biology, Politics, and The Embrace of History in Octavia Butler's Kindred." Science Fiction Studies 37.3 (2010): 362–381.

Poetry

• VanMeenen, Karen, ed. Residue of Time: Poets Respond to Kindred. Rochester, NY: Writers & Books, 2003. [Part of Writers & Books' annual community-wide reading program "If All of Rochester Read the Same Book".]