Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre–Civil War past, where she fnds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. This first volume in the Library of America edition of Butler’s collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half-century. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature.
She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists-“I wrote myself in,” she would later recall-establishing herself as one of the pioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms.
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