| Title: | Kafka and the fate of the body in a surveillance society. A foucauldian reading of Franz Kafka’s in the penal colony |
| Author: | Daniela Stoica |
| Publication: | Diversité et identité culturelle en Europe, VI, p. 163 |
| p-ISSN: | 2067-0931 |
| Publisher: | Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | This article focuses on the complexity of sovereign power and its effects on the human body. Kafka’s story, In the penal colony, seems to illustrate the relationship between body and power, or, more generally, the relation between human body and the discursive practices listed on it. As a result, in a kind of apocalyptic aesthetics, the human body turns into an object that can be written upon, an object subjected to different types of processing and manipulations, emphasizing the idea that human being is shaped by power from the time of his birth. |
| Key words: | penal colony, indefinite detention, Oedipian relationship, laws and rules |
| Language: | English |
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