Panopticism, Power-Knowledge and Subjectivation in Aboutorab Khosravi’s The Books of Scribes
The present paper aims to closely read Aboutorab Khosravi’s The Books of Scribes (2000), a recent example of successful Persian novelistic discourse, in terms of Foucauldian concepts of power-knowledge, panopticism, and subjectivation. Throughout the text, three different narrations, intermingled wi...
Main Authors: | Hoda Niknejadferdos, Bakhtiar Sadjadi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Lasting Impressions Press
2018-12-01
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Series: | International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies |
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Online Access: | http://www.eltsjournal.org/archive/value6%20issue4/13-6-4-18.pdf |
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