The Incarnation of Biopower and Biopolitics in the Novel “Women as Lovers” and “Greed” by Elfriede Jelinek
Session
Language and Culture
Description
The aim of the research paper entitled “The Incarnation of Biopower, and Biopolitics in the novel Women as Lovers and Greed by Elfriede Jelinek” is to decipher how the omnipresent modern technologies of power are used to exploit the human sentiments. The paper will also portray the power dynamics working through different institutes of the society that ultimately subjugate, traumatize, alienate, dehumanize, and disperse the subjects. The characters of Elfriede Jelinek are always struggling to achieve self-actualization, dignity, and esteem as they have been fragmented and tormented by the power struggle in the society. The novel Women as Lovers and Greed by Elfriede Jelinek depict the way the class of the society suffers from prejudice, animosity, and malice in the Austrian society. Through the characters like Brigitte, Paula, and Gerti, the author has highlighted the violence of the basic rights, and injustice confronted by the people particularly the women atrocities and oppression employing both capitalism and patriarchy. She has exposed the hypocrisies of the social structures, the hollowness of the social conventions, the cunningness of the traditional rituals, and patriarchal domination that led to the oppression and suppression of the characters since they are demonized and marginalized in society. Jelinek has been successful while providing the chilling and truthful vision of women’s precarious position in the Austria dominated entirely by men and money. Her characters are treated like tissue papers that entail the subjugation of human life to capitalist labor. Hence, the paper will analyze the issues of power politics and power dynamics in the novel Women as Lovers and Greed by Elfriede Jelinek through the technologies of power from the Foucauldian perspective.
Keywords:
Technologies of power, power, violence, domination, capitalism, politics
Session Chair
Drita Xhemaili
Session Co-Chair
Manjola Brahaj Halili
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-96-7
Location
Lipjan, Kosovo
Start Date
31-10-2020 3:15 PM
End Date
10-2020 4:45 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2020.232
Recommended Citation
Ganai, Faroz Ahmad, "The Incarnation of Biopower and Biopolitics in the Novel “Women as Lovers” and “Greed” by Elfriede Jelinek" (2020). UBT International Conference. 271.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2020/all_events/271
The Incarnation of Biopower and Biopolitics in the Novel “Women as Lovers” and “Greed” by Elfriede Jelinek
Lipjan, Kosovo
The aim of the research paper entitled “The Incarnation of Biopower, and Biopolitics in the novel Women as Lovers and Greed by Elfriede Jelinek” is to decipher how the omnipresent modern technologies of power are used to exploit the human sentiments. The paper will also portray the power dynamics working through different institutes of the society that ultimately subjugate, traumatize, alienate, dehumanize, and disperse the subjects. The characters of Elfriede Jelinek are always struggling to achieve self-actualization, dignity, and esteem as they have been fragmented and tormented by the power struggle in the society. The novel Women as Lovers and Greed by Elfriede Jelinek depict the way the class of the society suffers from prejudice, animosity, and malice in the Austrian society. Through the characters like Brigitte, Paula, and Gerti, the author has highlighted the violence of the basic rights, and injustice confronted by the people particularly the women atrocities and oppression employing both capitalism and patriarchy. She has exposed the hypocrisies of the social structures, the hollowness of the social conventions, the cunningness of the traditional rituals, and patriarchal domination that led to the oppression and suppression of the characters since they are demonized and marginalized in society. Jelinek has been successful while providing the chilling and truthful vision of women’s precarious position in the Austria dominated entirely by men and money. Her characters are treated like tissue papers that entail the subjugation of human life to capitalist labor. Hence, the paper will analyze the issues of power politics and power dynamics in the novel Women as Lovers and Greed by Elfriede Jelinek through the technologies of power from the Foucauldian perspective.