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Politics of Desire: A Deleuzist Reading on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra | ||
Critical Literary Studies | ||
مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 01 مهر 1404 | ||
نوع مقاله: Original Article | ||
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22034/cls.2025.64114 | ||
نویسنده | ||
Azita Aryan* | ||
Assistant Professor, English Department, Ershad Damavand Institute of Higher Education, Tehran, Iran. | ||
چکیده | ||
The present essay intends to apply Deleuzist tenets on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Deleuze posits that an artwork is a desiring machine endowed with the basic components of becoming woman, becoming animal, nomadism, war machine as well as BwO (body without organs). Drawing upon them, this research aims to dissolve Rome - Egypt duality and its corresponding genderized subjectivity and racial bias. The major questions raised in the research are: First, how do the early modern biracial lovers - from contrasting geographical spaces - merge in parallelism, and to what effect? Second, to what extent is the course of desubjectification carried out? Third, what vantagepoint (in culturalists’ parlance) is envisioned for the future polity? To answer the stated questions, this study probes into Deleuzist theories to demonstrate the characters’ decisiveness to transgress hegemonic codes and legitimate ideological power relations. These formulations align with Ovidian tradition of metamorphosis. Bodies in flux, reenact Shakespeare’s lovers in perpetual passage both within and without until Rome and Egypt – summing up the white/nonwhite polarity- consolidate. The disruptive theories appropriated by the lovers drive them to the communion of the disadvantaged. The final egalitarian gesture would envision a future polity of inclusion, diversity and equity. | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
Nomadism؛ Body without Organs (BwO)؛ Becoming؛ Affect Theory؛ Habitat and Culture؛ Ovidian Metamorphosis | ||
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