Homo sacer in the city: spatial politics of exclusion in j. g. ballard’s empire of the sun

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dc.contributor.author Altaç, İsmail Serdar
dc.date.accessioned 2021-06-14T09:26:57Z
dc.date.available 2021-06-14T09:26:57Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.isbn 978-605-031-653-7
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11787/2458
dc.description.abstract James Graham Ballard is an author who is known as one of the keen observers of the social and accompanying spatial shifts taking place in the 20th century. Although his oeuvre is filled with “ballardian” science fiction, his mid and late career is also marked by such autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works as Empire of the Sun (1984), The Kindness of Women (1991) and Miracles of Life (2008). The gated-communities, with which Ballard had been preoccupied throughout much of his career, have globally become one of the significant components of the urban spaces today. The proliferation of these communities has been creating a widening gap between those inside and those outside, to an extent that citizenship can no longer continue to be an overarching term for all of the urban dwellers. This paper aims to examine the birth of gated-communities and their impact on the public space of the city in Empire of the Sun. Set in Shanghai, the birthplace of J. G. Ballard, the novel relates a fictional account of Ballard’s childhood in Shanghai on the eve of World War II and in the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Camp during the war. This paper will firstly deal with the impact of Ballard’s post-war fictions, with regard to spatial politics, on Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical novel. Secondly, it will aim to demonstrate how the spatial paradigm which situates homo sacer, a person who can be killed with impunity according to Roman law, outside the city has shifted towards a new understanding in which homo sacer is situated within the city after the establishment of the gated-communities in the novel. It will be concluded that Empire of the Sun testifies to the disintegration of the city as a public space as a result of the introduction of homo sacer into the urban space. tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess tr_TR
dc.subject J. G. Ballard tr_TR
dc.subject City tr_TR
dc.subject Space tr_TR
dc.subject Gated-community tr_TR
dc.subject Homo sacer tr_TR
dc.title Homo sacer in the city: spatial politics of exclusion in j. g. ballard’s empire of the sun tr_TR
dc.type conferenceObject tr_TR
dc.relation.journal VI International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Symposium tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi/fen-edebiyat fakültesi/batı dilleri ve edebiyatları bölümü/İngiliz dili ve edebiyatı anabilim dalı tr_TR
dc.contributor.authorID 163360 tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage 76 tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage 85 tr_TR


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