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Staging enmity: reading populist productions of shame with Jelinek’s On the Royal Road
2023-07-26
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<h4>Background: </h4> : Populism is often perceived as a shamelessly loud segment of political discourse. However, Jelinek’s play On the Royal Road , written on the occasion of Trump’s 2016 election as US president, suggests that populism leads to societal silencing. Jelinek’s text expounds that when a society’s public sphere is marked by ubiquitous enmity against an imagined “we”, grounded in antagonism, then th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- be62ceab-84ad-5249-9f2a-a2bd0a2efbda
- DOI
- 10.12688/openreseurope.15469.2
