نوع مقاله : علمی - پژوهشی
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نویسنده [English]
This article focuses on the re-emergence of “camp” and rebirth of “homo sacers” in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen (2009) through the perspective of new-left thinkers. Deploying Giorgio Agamben’s views, the writer has tried to discuss how the biopolitical stands of the neo-liberal humanism in the West has abused the notion of “state of exception” to trigger a new type of “master-slave discourse” in the postcolonial era. To this end, notions of “bio-politics,” “indistinct zones/non-places,” and “bare life” have been studied. It is argued that with the politicization of life, the deprivation of migrants from “bios” and “zoe,” the imposition of “bare life” on them, and their limitaion to the borders of “citizenship/ noncitizenship,” “life/ death,” “belonging- nonbelonging,” and “the self/ the other,” the West has once more repeated the old binary opposition of the “us/ them” in the recent decades. Such treatment on the part of the West has given birth to “homo sacer” figures as well as establishment of “camps” in the center of imperialism and, thus, justified the violation of migrants’ rights under the stigmatization of them as “national enemies.”
کلیدواژهها [English]
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