Abstract This paper studies the dialectics between Lina, blind due to an ocular pathology, and biopolitics, developed by Michel Foucault and Roberto Esposito. We defend the social and political projection of the protagonist's disease, as the state exercises power over population’s bodies and regulates its lives for the sake of productivity. Lina attempts to withstand this biopower during most of the novel and she faces medical system, but afterwards she realises that any decision about her body and her identity was already predicted and included in biopolitical dynamics.
Dergi Türü : Uluslararası
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