Leseprobe
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Handling history
2.1 Kindred as accurately fictionalized history
2.2 Challenges of history and historiography
2.2.1 Missing sources and perspectivism in past and present
2.2.2 Contemporary silencing of the historical past
2.2.3 Media’s misleading influence on the historical memory
3 Social complexities of slavery
3.1 Threats within the slave community
3.2 The meaning of home
3.3 Family bonds as bondage
3.3.1 The ‘happy mammy’ as a result of forced accommodation
3.3.2 Family love and emotional ties as tools of threat
3.4 Master-slave intricacies
3.4.1 Rufus’ and Dana’s “matching strangeness”
3.4.2 Further love-hate-relationships
3.4.3 Mental manipulations and psychological conditioning
3.5 Fear and threat of physical punishment
4 Concluding thoughts
5 Bibliography
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- B.A. Saskia Guckenburg (Autor:in), 2013, Fighting historical amnesia: Octavia E. Butler’s "Kindred", München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/265525
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