Introduction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_(novel)

Octavia Butler's novel, published in 1979 by an american publishing company called Doubleday.

Octavia Butler's Kindred is a story about a woman named Edana Franklin who finds herself forcibly being pulled through time to 1815 Maryland at random intervals after her twenty-sixth birthday - experiencing firsthand the atrocities of american slavery while struggling both to survive and to protect her ancestors from the tyranny of American plantation owners.

The project will examine the language use of the protagonist throughout the novel and elaborate how the dialogue that she employs aligns with her relationship with African-American identity. 

The project will use resources such as Erik Thomas' Phonological and Phonetic Characteristics of AAVE, Carmen Fought's Language and Ethnicity, and Joan Fickett's Tense and Aspect in Black English to as a scope to analyze Octavia Butlers's protagonist's use of language.