Using Scalar, DH and Graphic Novels In the Classroom: Creating Multi-modal Frameworks for Teaching, Research and Instructional Design in the Humanities

How can science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afrofuturism help us think about our past?

Published in 1979, Octavia E. Butler's Kindred uses the science fiction element of time travel to explore 19th century Antebellum South and the post-Civil Rights era during the 1970s. Butler's novel is unique because it operates as a work of science fiction, speculative fiction, Afrofuturism and slave narrative. In 2017, it was adapted into a graphic novel by Damian Duffy. 

Before we explore how Kindred can help us think about our past, present, and even future - let's first define our key terms. 

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