The Neo-Slave Narratives is an African-American genre concerned with the continuing affairs of slavery, physical and psychological, on both slaves and enslavers . They examine issues of work, violence, denial, unequal dependency relationships, and the need to build a better future with former oppressors (Gates Jr. and McKay). There are three types of neo-slavery narratives. The third-person historical novel about slavery, the first-person narration of the story of a slave's life, and the recounting of the traumatic legacy of slavery on future generations. While 19th-century slavery narratives primarily served to educate white audiences about slavery, inciting them and engaging their opposition, the audience for neo-slavery narratives includes contemporary black readers who must come to terms with their own personal and ancestral stories of slavery (Vint). .Octavian Butler is a well-known author of neo-slavery narratives. Her popular novel Kindred describes the struggle of a young black woman as she attempts to escape the past, both literally and figuratively, and thereby gain a greater degree of agency, or the ability to make life choices. Butler chooses the body as the main troupe to recount the protagonist's multifaceted struggle to increase her free will (Vint). Kindred chronicles Dana's struggle for freedom and self-determination primarily through her body. He constructs the jumps in time, which forcibly displace Dana as explicitly corporeal events. It presents the uneasy and overdetermined relationship between Dana and Rufus, her white ancestor, in terms of a struggle for control of her body; and it clearly marks the brutal legacy of slavery, imprinted on a character from the present...... middle of paper ...... way to help ex-slaves and their ancestors cope with their lives of slavery, discrimination, and oppression in order to build a better future for themselves and for future generations (Vint). Works Cited Bast, Florian. " " NO. “The narrative theorization of embodied agency in Octavia Butler’s family.” » Extrapolation 53 (2012): 151-181. ProQuest. Internet. February 25, 2014. Gates, Jr., Henry Louis and Jennifer Burton. Call and response: Key debates in African American studies. 1st ed. New York: WW Norton and Company Inc., 2011. Print. Gates Jr., Henry Louis and Nellie Y. McKay. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. 2nd ed. New York: WW Norton and Company, Inc., 2004. Print.Vint, Sherryl. ““Only by experience”: incarnation and limits of realism in neo-slave narratives. » Science Fiction Studies 34.2 (2007): 241-261. JSTOR. Internet. February 25. 2014.