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Kindred - Octavia Butler, [美国] 奥克塔维娅·E.巴特勒

Kindred

Octavia Butler, [美国] 奥克塔维娅·E.巴特勒

出版社

Beacon Press

出版时间

2009-02-01

ISBN

9780807083109

评分

★★★★★

标签

美国小说黑人时间旅行

书籍介绍
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
AI导读
核心看点
  • 现代黑人女性被迫穿越至蓄奴时代，生死攸关。
  • 深刻剖析奴隶制下权力压迫与人性异化。
  • 断臂象征历史创伤，无人能完好归来。
适合谁读
  • 对非裔美国文学及奴隶制历史感兴趣的读者。
  • 喜欢时间旅行设定与严肃文学结合的读者。
  • 关注种族、性别及权力关系议题的读者。
读前提醒
  • 作者自认此为黑暗奇幻，非传统硬科幻。
  • 主角穿越机制无科学解释，重在隐喻体验。
  • 直面暴力与性剥削描写，心理承受需准备。
读者共识
  • 穿越设定极具张力，代入感强且扣人心弦。
  • 鲁弗斯形象复杂，展现平庸之恶与社会之罪。
  • 揭示适应奴役之易，反思历史对后代的深远影响。

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录
  • "Quiet, almost frightening anger. Her husband dead, three children sold, the fourth defective, and her having to thank God for the defect."
  • "Bible wasn't the only place where slaves broke free."
  • "If he couldn't get what he wanted from her gently, he stopped being gentle. Why not? She always forgave him."
  • "Rufu's time demanded things of me that had never been demanded before, and it could easily kill me if I did not meet its demands."
  • "Slavery was a long slow process of dulling"
  • "It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain."
  • "Nazi book burnings. Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of 'wrong' ideas."
  • "He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper."
作者简介
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
用户评论
美国的穿越文=。=
Butler第一人称视角一贯的风格。挺有沉浸感，人物塑造也喜欢。
（这么好的书有没有哪位金主能把版权买了？我想翻！）时空穿梭让人联想到《杜波依斯的情歌》跳跃的时间线。这本出版年代比较早，受时代所限视角不如《情歌》宏大，但是故事更紧凑，人物关系也更出彩。两个主人公的关系特殊又微妙，随着时间的推移而成长转变，非常有张力。
轻科幻+历史 很多场景读过一遍就像是根植在脑海里一样。沉重，鲜活。
Most of the time, living just isn't worth the trouble. 整本书就觉得Rufus这个角色比较成功，复杂但是又让人难以真的厌恶。对主角之类的完全无感，典型美式主角，那叫一个人品好，，见到小孩一定要救，看到小孩一定要喜欢，有缺点也是什么懦弱啊之类主角型缺点，，看着就无聊，，读了几本主角独白都是自己人品又好素质又高，不做坏事，然后坏人就做典型的坏事，坏的不行。这还叫文化大作，必须看了又看。别的不说，小说我对天朝还真是充满自信
对比一些穿越文学：某网男主角穿越打怪当降落、女主角穿越献计娶老公，《血缘》穿越被暴打…大家对历史都有不同的记忆体验
好看！
用neoslave narrative的体裁，写的是future intervention into the past，写作意图却是past intervention into the future。最后Dana留在奴隶制时期的断臂具象地传递了没有人能够重访历史而不被历史所伤，而对受奴役的人的后代而言，更恐怖的是适应受禁锢的生活竟然没有想象中困难，即历史对于某些人而言并不是线性向前的，而是暴力循环的。伴随着身份认同和主体性的显现的是一种无法摆脱和逃避的缺失 -- 我们是暴力的产物而非理想世界的建造者。
A different perspective of what equity, humanity mean
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