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HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL

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HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL

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John Lanchester’s The Wall (2019) presents a dystopic world where climate change in the form of extreme rising sea levels has caused the majority of the landmasses to be inundated and millions of people to lose their homes, transforming them into environmentally displaced people who try to survive in the open seas. In the novel, miraculously affected by climate change only in a limited way, Britain builds a ten-thousand-kilometer-long wall that circumscribes all its borders to keep not only the water out but also the environmentally displaced others. Given this double function of the wall, this article aims to discuss this image of the wall, first, as a reflection of human exceptionalism which gives off the false impression that even a climate disaster at that scale is still somehow tractable. Second, it further argues that the wall acts as a catalyst for perpetuating an economy of sameness or self-identity that deliberately ignores and increases the vulnerability and precarity of others by creating an impassable divide between insiders (i.e. those inside the wall) and outsiders (i.e. the environmentally displaced people)—a divide that not only maximizes the precarity of the latter group but also casts their lives as disposable.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Edebi Teori

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Aralık 2021

Gönderilme Tarihi

13 Kasım 2021

Kabul Tarihi

13 Aralık 2021

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2021 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Yılmaz, H. (2021). HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi, 3(2), 193-212. https://doi.org/10.55036/ufced.1023083
AMA
1.Yılmaz H. HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL. UFCED. 2021;3(2):193-212. doi:10.55036/ufced.1023083
Chicago
Yılmaz, Hakan. 2021. “HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi 3 (2): 193-212. https://doi.org/10.55036/ufced.1023083.
EndNote
Yılmaz H (01 Aralık 2021) HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi 3 2 193–212.
IEEE
[1]H. Yılmaz, “HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL”, UFCED, c. 3, sy 2, ss. 193–212, Ara. 2021, doi: 10.55036/ufced.1023083.
ISNAD
Yılmaz, Hakan. “HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi 3/2 (01 Aralık 2021): 193-212. https://doi.org/10.55036/ufced.1023083.
JAMA
1.Yılmaz H. HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL. UFCED. 2021;3:193–212.
MLA
Yılmaz, Hakan. “HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi, c. 3, sy 2, Aralık 2021, ss. 193-12, doi:10.55036/ufced.1023083.
Vancouver
1.Hakan Yılmaz. HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL. UFCED. 01 Aralık 2021;3(2):193-212. doi:10.55036/ufced.1023083

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