The Construction of Identities

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.25159/1753-5387/13800

Ammar Aqeeli

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Abstract

This article explores how Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America demonstrates the interconnectedness of xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination in American life and politics. Through the critiques offered by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, this article investigates the relationships between ideological state apparatuses, production of power and the construction of social identities. The subjugated characters in the play attempt to resist, negotiate and accommodate normative or regulative discursive processes that impose fixed identities upon them. Wallace’s play demonstrates that resistance constitutes power, which can be either weak, submissive, creative, and/or productive. Raising awareness of the possibilities of resistance to subjectifying power is what In the Heart of America yearns to do.

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身份的建构

本文探讨了娜奥米·华莱士的《在美国的心脏》如何展示了仇外心理、种族主义和其他形式的歧视在美国生活和政治中的相互联系。本文通过阿尔都塞、福柯和巴特勒等人的批判，探讨了意识形态国家机器、权力生产和社会身份建构之间的关系。剧中被征服的人物试图抵制、协商和适应将固定身份强加于他们身上的规范性或规范性话语过程。华莱士的戏剧表明，抵抗构成了力量，这种力量可以是软弱的、顺从的、创造性的和/或生产性的。提高人们对抵抗主体化权力的可能性的认识，正是《在美国的心中》一书所渴望做的。

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Journal of Literary Studies Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Literary Studies publishes and globally disseminates original and cutting-edge research informed by Literary and Cultural Theory. The Journal is an independent quarterly publication owned and published by the South African Literary Society in partnership with Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis. It is housed and produced in the division Theory of Literature at the University of South Africa and is accredited and subsidised by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training. The aim of the journal is to publish articles and full-length review essays informed by Literary Theory in the General Literary Theory subject area and mostly covering Formalism, New Criticism, Semiotics, Structuralism, Marxism, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalysis, Gender studies, New Historicism, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Reception Theory, Comparative Literature, Narrative Theory, Drama Theory, Poetry Theory, and Biography and Autobiography.