Kindred takes some creative liberties with the story, making some significant detours that are not entirely faithful to their cherished text. And Kindred - which blends time travel, historical fiction, and a love story when a (then) modern-day Black woman is inexplicably whisked back and forth from her California home to a plantation in the year 1815 - is a pioneering work so revered that it’s still taught in college lit classes and has inspired enough scholarship, essays, and critical analysis to fill a whole library.įans of the book may need to find ways to soothe themselves then when the eight episodes drop on Hulu on December 13.
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Their anxieties were certainly understandable: Butler is considered the first Black writer to find success in the sci-fi genre. Butler’s Kindred was being adapted into a TV series for FX, fans of the 1979 novel seemed as hopeful and excited as they were territorial - glad Butler’s work was finally reaching screens but fiercely protective and adamant that nobody screw it up.
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