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Legitimizing Oppression: An Althusserian Study of Jamil Ahmed’s The Wandering Falcon
Abstract
This study aims to analyze the coercion on downtrodden people and the role of the state to legitimize the oppression in Jamil Ahmed’s The Wandering Falcon through the perspective of Althusser’s function of repressive state apparatuses in the capitalist society. It also tends to highlight the factors of class inequalities, marginalization and oppression that cause suffering for the destitute class especially in tribal areas of Pakistan. The state uses repressive state apparatuses such as the judiciary and armed forces to oppress those who violate the ideology of the state by emerging as a threat to the interests of the ruling class. Henceforth, the lives of the under privileged people are so difficult in those areas that they have to fight the battle of their survival against state-sponsored oppression. This study contributes to resolving the problems of the downtrodden people who are struggling to cope up for their rights in Pakistan
Authors
Kashifa Khalid
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Central Punjab Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Usama Javed Iqbal
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, University of Central Punjab Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Muneeba Liaquat
Department of English, University of Central Punjab Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Destitute Masses, Repressive State Apparatus, State-Sponsored Oppress
