Human exceptionalism, precariousness, and economy of sameness in John Lanchester’s The Wall
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2021
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Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi
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John Lanchester’s The Wall (2019) presents a dystopic world where climate change in the form of extreme rising sea levels has caused the majority of the landmasses to be inundated and millions of people to lose their homes, transforming them into environmentally displaced people who try to survive in the open seas. In the novel, miraculously affected by climate change only in a limited way, Britain builds a ten-thousand-kilometer-long wall that circumscribes all its borders to keep not only the water out but also the environmentally displaced others. Given this double function of the wall, this article aims to discuss this image of the wall, first, as a reflection of human exceptionalism which gives off the false impression that even a climate disaster at that scale is still somehow tractable. Second, it further argues that the wall acts as a catalyst for perpetuating an economy of sameness or self-identity that deliberately ignores and increases the vulnerability and precarity of others by creating an impassable divide between insiders (i.e. those inside the wall) and outsiders (i.e. the environmentally displaced people)—a divide that not only maximizes the precarity of the latter group but also casts their lives as disposable.
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John Lanchester, The Wall, Human Exceptionalism, Precariousness, Precarity, Economy of Sameness
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Yılmaz, H. (2021). HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM, PRECARIOUSNESS, AND ECONOMY OF SAMENESS IN JOHN LANCHESTER’S THE WALL . Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi , 3 (2) , 193-212 . Retrieved from https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ufced/issue/67784/1051943
