Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Themes in Dawn by Octavia Butler

- consent: nobody seemed to believe in it- there was what we would call rape- Nikanj uses tentacles.. 
  • rape as ambiguous- often 
  • blackness/gendered female- rape victim

non-cons-tenticle- kinky sex

- Exchange-

  • Ooloi trade selves
  • but humans can't refuse to trade

- drugging
- Oolois- complicated sexuality- 

  • they can read what is in mind of others
  • but maybe they misread

- rape as ambiguous
- genocide being perpetrated- 

  • but humans were already almost dead
  • or were the Oankalii colonizers
  • humanity-wanting to preserve humans- kind of a strike for purity
  • so happy or so fucked up
- experience for Oankali can be acquired and lost- it has materiality
- domestication
- eugenics- histories of slavery.. 
  • genetic manipulation
- uneven relationship. period.
- cancers (like another kind of character)
- attraction and disgust
- Lilith- pragmatic, strong, doesn't have leader ego
- Lilith- powerful black woman
- identities as subjects muddled(human/gender/geography/species) but not skin color
- resistance
- cooperation/noncooperation

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