Violence and Power Relations in the Lives of Refugees in “Exit West”
Abstract
The narratives in Exit West (2017) portray the ‘nativism’ and ‘otherness’ through the lens of violence and power. The reduction of homines sacri to the level of bare life whereby the basic amenities are suspended in encamped populations, exposing them to direct violence against freedom needs. Violence entrenched structural and cultural fabric of society has a functional perspective too as it acts as an essence of politics. It affects and controls the normative behaviour and behavioral patterns of humans in socio-legal and religious realm, finding its moral justification therefrom . It is seen operating both perceptibly and imperceptibly catering to the administrative and political exigencies as system of governmentality. The variables of power and violence in the narratives of the refugees divulge their usage as strategies of domination of sub-populations in the zones of indistinction. The refugees are molded as subjects through violent atrocities, conflicts of forces, power and security technologies.
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