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to Calls for Papers in English & International Literature
Title: Reversal of "Interpellation" in Faulkner’s Flags in the Dust,
Go down Moses, and Absalom, Absalom, As An Althusserian perspective
Abstract
Faulkner as a Southern writer of America observed the worst
manifestations of racial and economic injustice in the region he
lived, and by the act of writing, he could better understand and
communicate to the readers. In a given society of his novels all the
activities based on economy are related in a chain called society. All
activities come from an ideology which Althusser considers a means of
'Interpellation'. Here interpellation is the form of social control to
make certain views seem common and colored people are made to choose a
thing that has no alternative, however, perhaps the old cycle of
exploitation will not last forever so we meet a reversal of
"interpellation" in Faulkner’s Flags in the Dust, Go down Moses, and
Absalom, Absalom. This research's Chapter one is to define what hint
of information illuminate Althusser’s concept of "interpellation" and
possibility of lower class’s being blind to the real state of affairs.
The second chapter is to present the reversal of Interpellation in a
way that the oppressed stands against his oppressor. The third chapter
of the research is to show how the opposing concepts face against each
other and grow fully in the selected novels.