Governmentality in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One of These Days
Abstract
This paper exposes power relations of governmentality in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story “One of These Daysâ€. Marquez’s story tells about asymmetric relations between a dentist and his city’s Mayor. The writing must be analyzed through Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, in which power is rationalized in shaping disciplines and anti-resistance. Through the qualitative method, this article explores the accentuations of governmentality in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One of These Daysâ€. Throughout the close reading as the technique of collecting data and content analysis as the technique of data analysis, the analysis includes what the city Mayor does in governmentality as forceful power against the dentist. Governmentality is seen in how corrupt behaviour affects subordinate people by implementing power and discipline. In conclusion, governmentality plays a significant role in Marquez’s story since it shows how power is not static but grows through the abusive behaviour of the subject’s power through the discipline of the object.
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Prasse-Freeman, E., (2020), Resistance/refusal: Politics of maneuver under diffuse regimes of governmentality, Sage Journals, 22 (1).
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Walters, W., (2012), Governmentality: Critical Encounters, London: Routledge.
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Wooffitt, R., (2005), Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction, London: Sage Publication.
Published
2024-12-31
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PASOPATI, Rommel Utungga et al.
Governmentality in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One of These Days.
Pioneer: Journal of Language and Literature, [S.l.], v. 16, n. 2, p. 148-165, dec. 2024.
ISSN 2655-8718.
Available at: <https://unars.ac.id/ojs/index.php/pioneer/article/view/4318>. Date accessed: 03 apr. 2025.
doi: https://doi.org/10.36841/pioneer.v16i2.4318.
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