Anticipating Apocalypse: Power Structures and the Periphery in Doris Lessing’s the Fifth Child and Ben, in the World

Anticipating Apocalypse: Power Structures and the Periphery in Doris Lessing’s the Fifth Child and Ben, in the World

This article argues that unremitting conflicts between the power centres and the individuals from the borderline spaces of the society characterise Doris Lessing’s novels The Fifth Child and Ben, in the World. The paper seeks to further the argument by applying Michel Foucault’s early work on power...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Islam Muhammad Saiful
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2013-03-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
Subjects:
elimination of the unregistered other
fear of the unknown
globalisation
intertextuality
resistance
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0027
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Summary:This article argues that unremitting conflicts between the power centres and the individuals from the borderline spaces of the society characterise Doris Lessing’s novels The Fifth Child and Ben, in the World. The paper seeks to further the argument by applying Michel Foucault’s early work on power and Zygmunt Bauman’s theory on liquid, thus postmodern, fear to manifest the implosion of the contemporary civilization that lives on global/local disparities and operates through subversive surveillance.
ISSN:1584-3734

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