عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
T647
انگلیسی
The colonization of bodies: Globalization and international organ trafficking in "Harvest" (1997) and "Dirty Pretty Things" (2002)
[Thesis]
;supervisor: Di Carmine, Roberta
Western Illinois University: United States -- Illinois
: 2012
58 Pages
M.A.
The issue of international organ trafficking has been recognized as one of the contradictory contemporary conflicts of modern capitalist society. Due to the uneven development between the Global North and the Global South, bodies from the Global South are colonized and commodified as tools of laboring; moreover, their living human tissues are marketed for Global North consumers. The paid organ donors of the Global South have been victimized by both technological dehumanization and the commodification of the consumer culture of the twenty-first century. This project looks at the "hidden side" of globalization by focusing on Manjula Padmanabhan's play Harvest (1997) and Stephen Frears's film Dirty Pretty Things (2002). The former, an Indian play, and the latter, a contemporary British film, provide new understandings of the ideological and political identity of the body. The theoretical framework used for this study on the colonization of bodies from the Global South includes the following aspects: the role of globalization in the Global South and consumer culture; the notion of "bare life" proposed by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben; the technological dehumanization and the commodification of bodies found in India and Great Britain; the British immigration laws and the Indian organ transplantation law. Through this analysis, my project seeks to draw awareness of how bodies and organs are commodified by the Global North. Additional questions which will be addressed include: how economic considerations orchestrate exchange of human tissues between the Global North and the Global South; how modern technologies provide incentive for illegal organ trafficking on a material level and on an ideological level; how globalization defines the disparity of power economically and politically; and, finally, how that affects the value and identities of the human body. For visual representation is an important means for projecting the real world, the examination of the representation of the body in both the play and the film offers a new insight to understand how the human body is colonized, not only as a political and social object, but also an economic resource on the global market. Moreover, the visual representation of the body interprets the politics of the body, the legislation of the nation and the commodification of the consumer culture. Harvest and Dirty Pretty Things let us explore not only the colonization of bodies, and specifically bodies of the Global South but also understand the power that resides in them, ultimately promoting critical thinking about elements which define a body - gender, class, race and ethnicity.
Comparative literature
Asian literature
Film studies
Communication and the arts
Language
literature and linguistics
Colonization
Commodification
Consumer culture
Global South
Organ trafficking
Padmanabhan
Manjula
England
Cheng, Anna
Di Carmine, Roberta, supervisor
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