Homines Sacri of Eskibahçe: An Agambenian Reading of Louis de Bernières’ Birds without Wings
| Autor: | Tuğçe Özdinç Kızıldere |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Volume: 32, Issue: 2 517-533 Litera: Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies |
| ISSN: | 2602-2117 |
| Popis: | This study aims to provide a political criticism of the 2004 novel Birds without Wingsby the English author Louis de Bernières, as the political background and overtlypolitical subplot of the novel render it open to one. In order to develop its ownargument the study reads Bernières’ novel through the political concepts of thecontemporary Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben, focusing mainly on two of them thatcan be found in Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life of Agamben, and createdby the sovereign in relation with the sovereign exception or ban: The first concept isan indistinct concept of life, namely a naked or as Agamben puts it, a bare life. Andthe second is the homo sacer (sacred man), the one who dwells in this naked life. Livingin a small village named Eskibahçe, the characters in Louis de Bernières’ novel aredescribed as birds without wings that “are always confined to earth, no matter howmuch [they] climb to the high places and flap [their] arms” by the author himself(2005, p.621) and they are turned into homines sacri (sacred men) during a state ofpolitical emergency as the footfall of the upcoming change. Therefore, the study aimsto examine all the homines sacri in Birds without Wings of Louis de Bernières by anAgambenian reading. |
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