Panopticon of “homeliness” in Ota Filip’s novel Neighbors and those others Cover Image

PANOPTIKUM „OSOBITOSTI“ V ROMÁNU OTY FILIPA SOUSEDÉ A TI OSTATNÍ
Panopticon of “homeliness” in Ota Filip’s novel Neighbors and those others

Author(s): Anna Gnot
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Czech Literature, Migration Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Panopticon; prison; cabinet of curiosities; disciplinary society; punishment

Summary/Abstract: Ota Filip’s novel “Neighbors and those others” includes instructions how to analyse it with use of concept of panopticon. Author of this article pay attention to three possible meanings of this conception. First of those meanings refer to institution of prison in understanding of Michel Foucault. Second concludes conception of cabinet of curiosities. Third one gathering other two and shows the mechanism of disciplinary society. All those meaning allows author to show which contents can be taken as “ours” and which one as “foreign”.

  • Issue Year: 19/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 365-370
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Czech