Panopticism and Monarchical Rule in Miguel Ángel Asturias's El señor presidente

Author(s)Quintero, Julio
Date Accessioned2016-09-28T01:49:59Z
Date Available2016-09-28T01:49:59Z
Publication Date2015-12-31
AbstractRevisions to Michel Foucault’s concept of panopticism have questioned the actual existence of a unique entity located at its center. Roberto Esposito has also criticized Foucault’s ambivalence at defining the limits of panopticism in relation to sovereignty. By employing Esposito’s discussion about the overlapping between panopticism and sovereignty, the author analyzes how power is exerted in Miguel Ángel Asturias’s El señor presidente. First, this paper examines the functioning of utilitarist systems of societal control. Secondly, it focuses on how the character of the President is also described as a sovereign. Finally, it argues that, in the case of Asturias’s novel, panopticism does not exclude sovereignty. Asturias’s novel reveals the nightmarish contradictions of a panopticist organization of power with a sovereign at its center.en_US
ISSN1536-1837
URLhttp://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/19764
Languageen_USen_US
PublisherLatin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DEen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
KeywordsEl señor presidenteen_US
KeywordsMiguel Ángel Asturiasen_US
KeywordsPanopticism and literatureen_US
KeywordsSovereignty and literatureen_US
KeywordsPower and literature.en_US
TitlePanopticism and Monarchical Rule in Miguel Ángel Asturias's El señor presidenteen_US
TypeArticleen_US
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