Ep 286 - Kindred, by Octavia Butler

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Octavia Butler’s Kindred is ostensibly a sci-fi/fantasy novel about time travel, but it also draws heavily from the tradition of first-person slave narratives. Butler’s characters, whether white slaveowners, the slaves themselves, or the time travelers in between are all allowed ample nuance, even as Butler puts the brutality and inhumanity of the era on full display.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Andrew, if you could travel through time, where would you go?
0:44.2	Oh, boy.
0:47.4	I can't do this without being that Louis C. Kade sketch about how time travel is only
0:53.4	safe for white men.
0:55.0	Oh, that's a good point.
0:58.2	I don't want to give his comedy a whole bunch of airtime for different reasons.
1:02.7	Why does everybody at all times in history have to be terrible?
1:06.4	Is the question I have.
1:07.4	That's a good question.
1:08.6	What about you?
1:09.9	I, well, we're going to overdo it's a podcast, but the books that you've been meeting
1:13.9	to read.
1:14.9	My name is Craig.
1:15.9	My name is Andrew.
1:16.9	And I don't really have a good answer as much as I remember one time in middle school
1:22.3	when my band director asked the question.
1:25.5	And I said the 1980s and when pressed to why I think I said metal, I think it was because
1:36.0	I was into metal music at the time.
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