Antonio Gramsci

Modernist writing is heavily influenced by the process of industrialization and the implications it had on the traditional lives of Americans. Modernism is therefore, a rejection of tradition and a hostile attitude towards the past. The combination of the 19th amendment and new attitudes towards the expressive arts, the modernists used personal narrations and abstract characters to express their own ideological views and personal struggles. Moreover, the characteristics of modernist narratives…

Gregor’s metamorphosis is symbolic of this commodification of man. The labor’s wage is a mere overhead cost from the point of view of the entrepreneur. Though the laborer is paid, his product is taken away from him. After the acknowledgement of the entrepreneur’s contribution of providing the conditions for production, it is important to realize that it is not possible to produce without the workforce. The thoughts and skills of the laborer go into his production. There are two factors at play…

Kids Get Working Class Jobs (2007) is based on an ethnographic research on a group of working class high school students in a British industrial town. In Learning to Labour, Willis’ questions come from his Marxist influence, mostly coming from Antonio Gramsci; he asks how the working class constantly socially reproduces on an individual level, and how can one justify for the subordinates' agreement with their condition (The cultural reader, 2011)? Willis’ study focuses on the underachievement of…

become the person he is now. Coates is transparent with his son; some of these things are his realization of the oppression around him that demonstrates the subaltern, within his life. The Subaltern means “A term conceived by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, who because he was in prison and his writings subject (,) to censorship used it as a codeword for any class of people (but especially peasants and workers) subject to…

Hourani provides an alternative interpretation to Thrasymachus’s position on justice that is best characterized as deontological. Similarly to Kerferd and Nicholson, Hourani takes the position that Thrasymachus’s opening statement is designed to make an “impression of daring cynicism”; however, that justice is the advantage of the stronger is not meant to be taken as a literal definition of justice. Instead, Hourani advocates that Thrasymachus is talking about obedience to the law when…

Nah et al. (2001) distributed eleven CSFs among four phases of Markus and Tanis’ model (2000). Similarly, Loh and Koh (2004) identified ten critical success factors and assigned them to Markus and Tanis’ (2000) 4-phase model. Those studies’ results showed that specific critical success factors were critical at particular phase of ERP implementation. Markus and Tanis’ model was also used by Wong et al. (2005) to investigate the factors of failure rather than success. This is a reverse approach…

Instead of being an oppressor, religion can be a source of resistance to economic and political oppression and can even act harmoniously with Marxism. In Antonio Gramsci’s essay, “The Intellectuals,” he discusses the role in which intellectual’s themselves have in both the new and dominant social order. Gramsci’s primary question and analysis revolves around “the distinction between intellectuals as an organic…

Primarily focusing on such themes as human relationships, desires, passions, sexualities, gender inequalities and empowerment the novelists under discussion voice the age-old silence of the “gendered subalterns”. This trauma discourse makes the muted trauma of South Asian women visible and attempts to create a framework that promotes the healing of trauma. The novels under discussion create a space, a site for contestation of ideologies in an effort to break the silence on gender-based violence…

Authority, Subversion and the Telling voices of the Subalterns in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire ABSTRACT: Transgendered occupy a chunk of Indian population. Not only in India but in most of the countries they live like social outcasts. Mahesh Dattani is a playwright who takes up his pen for these wretched of the earth. Seven Steps around the Fire dramatizes the brutal murder of a hijra for her secret marriage with a son of a minister. Dattani delves deep into the problem and…