THE PROCESS OF ‘THEM’ISATION: A MARXIST READING OF BARRY HINES’S A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE
| dc.contributor.author | Bağlama, Sercan Hamza | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-27T20:01:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-27T20:01:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.department | Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi | |
| dc.description.abstract | The objective of this article is to propose a Marxist reading of Barry Hines’s AKestrel for a Knave (1968) and to analyse the them-us contradiction through a close readingof the subjective experiences of the protagonist, Billy, in order to put forward that theantagonism between ‘them’ and ‘us’ is, despite the fact that it seems to comply with theMarxist conception of class and class consciousness, perceived more in cultural and personalterms than in economic terms. The article suggests that the lack of a class-consciousapproach based on the exploiter and the exploited is, as in the case of Billy and his defiantand self-centred reactions to the world of ‘them’, unable to lead to a radical transformationof the money-oriented world, capitalism, and that this, on the contrary, interpellates Billy, afictional representative of the socio-historical reality of the English working class, into thetotality of the social relations of production and materialises the hegemonic and reductionistpolitics of power relations. This process will, over the course of the article, be referred to asthe process of ‘them’isation. | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 66 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1302-3284 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1308-0911 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 1 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 57 | |
| dc.identifier.trdizinid | 384155 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/384155 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/20184 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 21 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | TR-Dizin | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.snmz | KA_TRD_20250125 | |
| dc.subject | Edebiyat | |
| dc.subject | Edebi Teori ve Eleştiri | |
| dc.title | THE PROCESS OF ‘THEM’ISATION: A MARXIST READING OF BARRY HINES’S A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE | |
| dc.type | Article |
