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The Novel of Collective Decay: Prefabricated Identities, Spiritual Void and Agambenian Excluded Existence in Margaret Drabble’s The Ice Age | ||
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances | ||
مقاله 14، دوره 11، شماره 1 - شماره پیاپی 21، تیر 2023، صفحه 217-233 اصل مقاله (497.05 K) | ||
نوع مقاله: Research Article | ||
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22049/jalda.2023.28066.1479 | ||
نویسندگان | ||
Nazila Herischian1؛ Seyed Majid Alavi Shooshtari* 2؛ Naser Motallebzadeh3 | ||
1Ph.D Candidate in English Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran | ||
2Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran | ||
3Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran | ||
چکیده | ||
The transitional period of the 1970s Britain being fictionalized in Margaret Drabble’s novel, The Ice Age (1977), provides the ground for theoretical discussion of the present paper that is based on the insights of Giorgio Agamben. It will inspect the way Drabble interprets socio-political issues dominant in the 1970s and the way these issues affect her outlook. In this paper, considering the figure of an excluded existence in The Ice Age, Agamben’s biopolitical insights are examined to see how they may contribute to understanding of the dark side of sovereignty and the potentiality to transform democracies into totalitarian states. Taking the precariousness of the emotional, political and, ontological faculties of “love”, “homo sacer”, and “bare life” allocated to human being by sovereignty, it offers a different view of Drabble’s subjects on love and socio-political problems, maintaining that Agamben’s account of these issues supplies an underlying structure of the form-of-life. The paper also, through the striking features of Agamben’s discourse, approaches the concept of bare life and knits it to the concepts of instrumentalism, labor, slavery, and life, and fundamentally presents the awareness of self in political view. The characters examine some potentialities that may help them to break away from the prevailing deadlocks of the era. It is eventually shown that these practices, which according to Agamben may lead to a form-of-life that is called a happy life, conclude in the exclusion and spiritual void of the individuals. | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
Agambenian love؛ whatever being؛ homo sacer؛ bare life؛ form-of-life | ||
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