Susana Morris
Academic
October 6, 2022, 4:30 PM EDT

Fall 2022 Anschutz Lecture: Susana Morris

“The Spirit of ’76: Slavery, Empire, and the Anthropocene in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Kindred’”

Set in both 1976 and antebellum America, Butler’s Kindred is part of a cadre of the 1970s neo-slave narratives that reckon with the nation’s legacy in ways that the Bicentennial’s commemorative stamps, coins, and patriotic parades could never do.