Cite Work for Kindred Paper “Touching Scars, Touching Slavery: Trauma,
Quilting, and Bodily Epistemology.” Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary
Culture, by LISA WOOLFOLK, University of Illinois Press, 2009, pp. 45–63. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcq3x.6. Accessed 24 Apr. 2020. In the article
“Touching Scars, Touching Slavery”, relates to the pain and trauma that slaves endured in the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler. In the book “Touching Scars,
Touching Slavery”, speaks about the capture of slaves in the story “Middle Passage”,
Just like “Kindred”, Dana wasn’t the only black female to be confined to scars, whips,
and pain, Lizzie in “Touching Scars, Touching Slavery”, also went through a series of pain and torture while aboard. Mentioned in the story “Because Lizzie’s wounds alone cannot convey the meaning of her reincarnation”. The pain that Lizzie feeling of being captured again is more pain to her than any wound suffered. The way the author of “Touching Scars, Touching Slavery” using Lizzie pain from her capture can have a reflect on how author Butler in “Kindred” felt about Dana up-close pictures of pain female have in the novel. Hine, Darlene Clark. “‘Ain’t I a Woman?: Female
Slaves in the Plantation South’: Twenty Years After.” The Journal of African American
History, vol. 92, no. 1, 2007, pp. 13–21. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20064151.
Accessed 24 Apr. 2020. In the article “Ar’nt I a Women”, by Darlene Clark, she argues that women overcame a lot of pain being forced against there will. Author
Clark expresses black when are more than a sexual item. Clark says that “White
explains, on the one hand, there were the women obsessed with matters of flesh; on
the other hand, was the asexual woman.” White slave owners explore our bodies for pleasure. Just like in the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, when Rufus rapes Alice because he was sexually attached to her. Author Clark wants young black women to know we have to protect our bodies from what our ancestry went through on the plantation years ago against a white slave owner.

1. How does Dana attempt to heal history’s wounds? In what ways is she successful? In what ways does she fail? Who or what contributes to her success?
2. How does Dana’s character, attitude, or personality help or hinder her in the 1800s?
3. How does Kindred show that slavery offered no positive or safe options for enslaved people? How did slavery also damage society in general?
4. Answer any other question (or pair of questions) from our “Big Questions” list: Kindred Big Questions