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Title TRACING IDEOLOGICAL HAILING IN IDENTITY FORMATION: AN INTERPELLATIVE STUDY OF JACKSON-BROWN’S DRINKING FROM A BITTER CUP AND NAQVI’S HOME BOY

Author(s) NADEEM KHAN

Abstract The present research explores and analyses Angela Jackson- Brown’s Drinking from a Bitter Cup and H. M Naqvi’s Home Boy by invoking Louis Althusser’s theory of ideology and the concept of interpellation. The deep-rooted influence of ideology in someone’s life cannot be put aside. It is so overwhelming that there is nobody living outside its sphere of influence. Successful ideology is the one that is thought as a natural way of looking at things in the world. Althusser, after much contemplation reaches the realm of ideology to develop, as he says, what Marx only initiated. He opens to question the inescapable influence of ideology in public sphere. According to him ideology is “imaginary relationship” that controls the “real conditions of existence”. The main characters in the selected novels seem that they are free in their choices and are unaware of the fact that they have no choices of their own. In fact, things are imposed upon them. Different ideologies not only hail and purport what to do and what not to do but they also enforce a certain kind of thinking in specific ways. The present study also focusses on the subjectivity of such hailed individuals who are the products of the dominant social forces in the form of ideologies. For carrying out the analysis of the selected texts with the chosen lens, I have used close textual analysis as my research method. The research attempts to investigate how actions of characters are restricted by the false consciousness of ideology which is inculcated by ideological state apparatuses (ISAs). Thus, this study is likely to productively contribute in the production of knowledge in studies on culture and ideology.

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Publication Date 2019-10-25

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