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EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL

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EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL

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The border issue stands at the heart of American writer George Saunders’s novella “Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil” (2005). In his political satire, Saunders shows the symbolic meanings of border and highlights its significance between ethnicities, nations, and states through creating a fantasy world populated by not-quite-human inhabitants who possess anthropomorphic characteristics. In his fable, Saunders deliberately draws an analogy between the functioning of a modern human world and that of the non-human creatures by focusing on the role of border, territory, self and group identity, and state. Saunders’s novella primarily shows how the border issue is potential to be exploited by a populist racist political leader whose personal complexes and desire for power mostly control his actions and decisions. As we argue in this paper, by using the issue of border area, Phil quickly tumbles his nation into an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian regime which mainly functions by its self-proclaimed leader’s exploitation of the militia, the economy, the bureaucrats, and the media.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Sanat ve Edebiyat

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Temmuz 2020

Gönderilme Tarihi

15 Mart 2020

Kabul Tarihi

27 Mayıs 2020

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2020 Cilt: 21 Sayı: 39

Kaynak Göster

APA
Nayebpour, K., & Varghaiyan, N. (2020). EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 21(39), 845-876. https://doi.org/10.21550/sosbilder.704138
AMA
1.Nayebpour K, Varghaiyan N. EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2020;21(39):845-876. doi:10.21550/sosbilder.704138
Chicago
Nayebpour, Karam, ve Naghmeh Varghaiyan. 2020. “EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL”. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21 (39): 845-76. https://doi.org/10.21550/sosbilder.704138.
EndNote
Nayebpour K, Varghaiyan N (01 Temmuz 2020) EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21 39 845–876.
IEEE
[1]K. Nayebpour ve N. Varghaiyan, “EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL”, Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 21, sy 39, ss. 845–876, Tem. 2020, doi: 10.21550/sosbilder.704138.
ISNAD
Nayebpour, Karam - Varghaiyan, Naghmeh. “EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL”. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21/39 (01 Temmuz 2020): 845-876. https://doi.org/10.21550/sosbilder.704138.
JAMA
1.Nayebpour K, Varghaiyan N. EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2020;21:845–876.
MLA
Nayebpour, Karam, ve Naghmeh Varghaiyan. “EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL”. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 21, sy 39, Temmuz 2020, ss. 845-76, doi:10.21550/sosbilder.704138.
Vancouver
1.Karam Nayebpour, Naghmeh Varghaiyan. EXPLOITATION OF THE BORDER ISSUE IN GEORGE SAUNDERS’S THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 01 Temmuz 2020;21(39):845-76. doi:10.21550/sosbilder.704138

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