She was educated at Pasadena City College, California State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. She began her writing career in 1970 and remains one of the few black, female science fiction writers in the United States. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
Postmodern literature is more ontological in nature.
Many Postmodern works undertake a critical revisiting of the past. Consider how Butler does this. Through the technique of time travel, she is able to make the presence of the past a concrete and real thing for Kevin and Dana. Kindred is often characterized as science fiction, but Butler herself calls it fantasy. After the 1960s liberation movements, women writers radically revised the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and utopia fiction, coopting them to serve their own political goals.