BIO VIOLENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER: A CRITICAL STUDY OF KHALIEF’S MY FIRST AND ONLY LOVE
Keywords:
Autonomous Power, Bioviolence, Foucault, Khalief, Mann, Palestinian FictionAbstract
The fractured, contested and fragile territories of Palestine hints towards the management and protection of Palestinian lives through biopolitical measures and ends up with hegemonic measures of controlling and manipulating bodies through technological surveillance and bioviolence. This paper encapsulates the theories of Mann and Foucault to internalize and contextualize oppressive power systems in Palestinian daily life through literary cannon. The study utilizes Khalief fiction as a sample for political apparatus to employ on Palestinian fiction adopting Qualitative analysis of Miles and Huberman. The text navigates through time, spanning decades, and explores how family, politics, and friendship are influenced by bio violence and war, questioning whether collective memory is immutable. Khalifeh took stand for her nation to give it strength and value. The research manifests the struggles of Khalief characters during mass causalities and social disruption caused by prime players of bioweapons in Palestinian villages. The state ability to regulate bodies intensified after 1948 where Khalief dramatizes Palestinian social world presenting restrictions of Nidal, Rabi and their uncle to regain their self esteem and right to live in their land. The biopolitical pressures from multiple directions are affecting characters lives shifting them into biopolitical subjects of Israeli governance.
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