Atwood’s Pre and Post-Apocalyptic World: Manifestation of the Levinasian Subject in the Realm of the Other
| Autor: | نگار منفرد سعید, زکریا بزدوده, سیروس امیری |
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| Jazyk: | perština |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Naqd-i Zabān va Adabīyyāt-i Khārijī, Vol 14, Iss 18, Pp 235-259 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2008-7330 2588-7068 |
| Popis: | This study is an attempt to scrutinize Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy with regard to Levinas’s ethics which includes the other, subjectivity, trauma, and responsibility. A bond is formed between Atwood’s apocalyptic world and ethics to demonstrate how and to what extent the characters in the novels are the Levinasian responsible subjects. The survivors are suffering from the disturbance in the chronology of time; that is despite their presence in the present time, the past revives. The coincidence of the past and present with an unknown future dangles like a pendulum in the characters’ mind. Responsibility for the survivors revives their childhood which is replete with parents’ irresponsibility. Their childhood memories are tied with the role of father and mother which can be explored in light of Levinas’s ‘feminine alterity,’ ‘paternity’ and ‘father and son’ relation. In this study it is also revealed to what extent paternity and maternity in the role of feminine alterity creates apocalypse and new generation and establishes the ethical relation. |
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