![]() ![]() For context, humanity as imploded on Earth with a nuclear war at the climax. “Dawn” begins with Lilith, an African American woman, waking up frightened in an unfamiliar, barren space. In addition, Butler also reimagines a world where the Other includes an expansive range of possibilities and scrutinizes the binary thinking in humans to verify the existence of different understandings of life. ![]() I believe that Butler tackles modern forms of oppression which stems from questions dealing with sex and gender. Butler creates another post-modern world, which she does so well in her other works, to reimagine and challenge Humanism while empowering those who are marginalized under its current ideology-the Other. ![]() In Octavia Butler’s “Dawn,” she uses the Other, to criticize the construct of humanity under Humanism-specifically dealing with the sexualization of the human subject. ![]()
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