First impressions of Kindred

From the little bit of the book that we have read, I once again see Kindred as a different kind of novel from the previous ones that we have read. I am starting to really enjoy this because the genres of postmodernism and history as fiction are in all of the books we have read but at the same time they are all radically different. Ragtime was more like a history book narration without much emotion shown by the narrator. Mumbo Jumbo was the exact opposite with the author often interjecting. Slaughterhouse-Five was even more different yet with a self evident, self deprecating narrator. Kindred is more of a traditional novel in my opinion. We have the elements that postmodernism is built on (with the time travel sci-fi and the historical fiction) but at the same time it follows traditional story telling. Also, there aren't many instances where you could jump out and say that something is historically inaccurate. Obviously Dana never time traveled but what I mean is that the historical aspect of Kindred is more in the setting than the events. In Mumbo Jumbo, Ragtime, and Slaughterhouse-Five we have specific events that we can dispute factually but Kindred's storyline strays away from this criticism. In this sense, Kindred is most like Slaughterhouse-Five because it is about fictional characters in a real setting (also the time travel bit).
Another way that Kindred is like more traditional stories is the actual plot. I have seen a few movies and TV shows where a character time travels and has to deal with ancestors or a time era that directly involves their existence. Unfortunately the only show that comes to mind at the moment is an episode of Family Guy in which Peter goes back in time and does things that make his kids not exist anymore but the storyline is a very familier one, unlike the other books we have read.
Overal, as all of the books we have read, I look forward to a change of pace.