Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading

This paper is concerned with two fundamental phenomena in any society: discourse and power. It focuses on how power is being reproduced by discourse in society. Many forms of social inequality, such as those based on gender, class, sexuality and race, are construed, perpetuated and legitimated by...

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Main Authors:	Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Ramin, Zohreh, Shabanirad, Ensieh
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12841/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12841/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12841/1/17455-59954-3-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-128412019-05-02T12:55:50Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12841/ Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Ramin, Zohreh Shabanirad, Ensieh This paper is concerned with two fundamental phenomena in any society: discourse and power. It focuses on how power is being reproduced by discourse in society. Many forms of social inequality, such as those based on gender, class, sexuality and race, are construed, perpetuated and legitimated by discourse. The critical method in this study is influenced by Michel Foucault’s theories on power and discourse. It is in discourse, as Foucault puts it, that power and knowledge are joined together. However, Foucault argues that discourse is both the means of oppressing and the means of resistance. This study examines these forms of the discursive reproduction of power in Nadine Gordimer’s novel, Occasion for Loving (1963). The researchers aim to explore how the control and power shaping and defining discourse in the prison-society of apartheid South Africa reveals the inevitable entanglement of the personal and the political and how such a relationship can be used by the artist to resist and subvert the controlling social and political discourses. The paper also sheds light on how Gordimer generates a discourse that challenges the apartheid’s legal discourse on race and interracial sexuality. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12841/1/17455-59954-3-PB.pdf Seyed Mohammad Marandi, and Ramin, Zohreh and Shabanirad, Ensieh (2017) Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (3). pp. 37-49. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1027
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description	This paper is concerned with two fundamental phenomena in any society: discourse and power. It focuses on how power is being reproduced by discourse in society. Many forms of social inequality, such as those based on gender, class, sexuality and race, are construed, perpetuated and legitimated by discourse. The critical method in this study is influenced by Michel Foucault’s theories on power and discourse. It is in discourse, as Foucault puts it, that power and knowledge are joined together. However, Foucault argues that discourse is both the means of oppressing and the means of resistance. This study examines these forms of the discursive reproduction of power in Nadine Gordimer’s novel, Occasion for Loving (1963). The researchers aim to explore how the control and power shaping and defining discourse in the prison-society of apartheid South Africa reveals the inevitable entanglement of the personal and the political and how such a relationship can be used by the artist to resist and subvert the controlling social and political discourses. The paper also sheds light on how Gordimer generates a discourse that challenges the apartheid’s legal discourse on race and interracial sexuality.
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title	Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading
title_short	Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading
title_full	Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading
title_fullStr	Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading
title_full_unstemmed	Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading
title_sort	discourse, power and resistance in nadine gordimer’s occasion for loving: a foucaultian reading
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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Discourse, power and resistance in Nadine Gordimer’s Occasion for Loving: a foucaultian reading

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