Necropolitics and the Diasporic Subject: From Sophocles’ s Antigone to Kamila Shamsie’ s Home Fire

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Doosti Farzaneh; NOJOUMIAN AMIR ALI

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Journal: CRITICAL LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES Year:2019 | Volume:15 | Issue:21 Page(s): 127-151

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Necropolitics and the Diasporic Subject: From Sophocles’ s Antigone to Kamila Shamsie’ s Home Fire

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Doosti Farzaneh | NOJOUMIAN AMIR ALI | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

necropolitics

Islamophobia

post-9.11 fiction

Muslim diaspora

Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie

Antigone

Abstract

This paper examines Kamila Shamsie’ s Home Fire (2017) as a faithful transposition of Sophocles’ s Antigone into a contemporary novel that addresses the diasporic subject’ s encounter with sovereign politics of life and death in the post-9/11 backlash against Muslims. A survey of the notion of the embodied subject as set in the complex network of power relations and biopolitics in the diaspora space where new forms of bio-and necro-power (as expounded by Postcolonial thinker Achille Mbembe) are at work towards enforcing subjugation of diasporic bodies forcefully synthesises with the question of belonging, the right to soil, and post-mortem identity in Shamsie’ s Home Fire. For Aneeka Pasha and other British diasporics, burial of British citizens by birth in the British soil is a natural and legal right, whereas to the representatives of the Islamophobic State, the diasporic subject’ s rights to soil is as evanescent as their liminal identities. Just like Polyneices in Antigone, the dead body of Parvaiz – a remorseful ISIS member seeking a way back home to rest in peace – functions beyond the biological borders of his body and proves to challenge the body politic of the state and question their necropolitical decisions.

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Doosti, Farzaneh, & NOJOUMIAN, AMIR ALI. (2019). Necropolitics and the Diasporic Subject: From Sophocles’ s Antigone to Kamila Shamsie’ s Home Fire. CRITICAL LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES, 15(21 ), 127-151. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/785886/en

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Doosti Farzaneh, NOJOUMIAN AMIR ALI. Necropolitics and the Diasporic Subject: From Sophocles’ s Antigone to Kamila Shamsie’ s Home Fire. CRITICAL LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES[Internet]. 2019;15(21 ):127-151. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/785886/en

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Farzaneh Doosti, and AMIR ALI NOJOUMIAN, “Necropolitics and the Diasporic Subject: From Sophocles’ s Antigone to Kamila Shamsie’ s Home Fire,” CRITICAL LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES, vol. 15, no. 21 , pp. 127–151, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/785886/en

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