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Brilliant and brutal and heartbreaking and complex.
It’s not really science fiction - maybe there was nothing else to call it when it was published in 1979. It uses time travel to contrast a black woman from the 1970s with her ancestors in the South in 1815.
It’s astoundingly modern for being 40 years old. It asks questions about power and race and gender and privilege. And key to it’s themes are that everyone - both in the past and today - bear the scars and damage from America’s past slavery.
It’s not really science fiction - maybe there was nothing else to call it when it was published in 1979. It uses time travel to contrast a black woman from the 1970s with her ancestors in the South in 1815.
It’s astoundingly modern for being 40 years old. It asks questions about power and race and gender and privilege. And key to it’s themes are that everyone - both in the past and today - bear the scars and damage from America’s past slavery.
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