<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article argues that unremitting conflicts between the power centres and the individuals from the borderline spaces of the society characterise Doris Lessing’s novels The Fifth Child and Ben, in the World. The paper seeks to further the argument by applying Michel Foucault’s early work on power and Zygmunt Bauman’s theory on liquid, thus postmodern, fear to manifest the implosion of the contemporary civilization that lives on global/local disparities and operates through subversive surveillance.</p></abstract>

This article argues that unremitting conflicts between the power centres and the individuals from the borderline spaces of the society characterise Doris Lessing’s novels The Fifth Child and Ben, in the World. The paper seeks to further the argument by applying Michel Foucault’s early work on power and Zygmunt Bauman’s theory on liquid, thus postmodern, fear to manifest the implosion of the contemporary civilization that lives on global/local disparities and operates through subversive surveillance.

Anticipating Apocalypse: Power Structures and the Periphery in Doris Lessing’s the Fifth Child and Ben, in the World

Romanian Journal of English Studies

This article argues that unremitting conflicts between the power centres and the individuals from the borderline spaces of the society characterise Doris...

Anticipating Apocalypse: Power Structures and the Periphery in Doris Lessing’s the Fifth Child and Ben, in the World

Published Online: Feb 22, 2013

Page range: 278 - 292

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0027

Keywords
elimination of the unregistered other, fear of the unknown, globalisation, intertextuality, resistance

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Anticipating Apocalypse: Power Structures and the Periphery in Doris Lessing’s the Fifth Child and Ben, in the World

Published Online: Feb 22, 2013

Page range: 278 - 292

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0027

Keywordselimination of the unregistered other, fear of the unknown, globalisation, intertextuality, resistance

This content is open access.

Keywords
elimination of the unregistered other, fear of the unknown, globalisation, intertextuality, resistance