Aesthetic Criticism of the Spatial Violence in The Hunger Games  

作　　者：WANG Yingjun 

机构地区：[1]University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

出　　处：《北京第二外国语学院学报》2016年第5期143-143,共1页Journal of Beijing International Studies University

摘　　要：The Hunger Games, a current popular dystopian fiction written byAmerican writer Suzanne Collins, reveals the social crises of the post-capitalism time.It stirs up the harsh criticism for its many violent depictions, but it is the depictions ofviolence that make it special. From a critical viewpoint of aesthetics of violence, thispaper tries to use the theory of violence of post-Marxist Slavoj Zizek to analyze anddig out that the essential root of the crises in the novel is the capitalism system itselfin the post capitalist era. The extreme desire of capitalism is to occupy extreme capitalspace that leads to the building up of the totalitarian governance at the base of spatialviolent politics in the novel. The spatial isolation becomes the most necessary devicefor making biggest profits; while violence becomes the most effective security toremain the spatial isolation. The close union of multiple violence and spatial isolationbecomes the strongest foundation of the totalitarianism of capitalist society. Then itbecomes the impressive theme of the aesthetics of violence of the novel—how thegoverned can employ the violence of the other’s to break the spatial isolation anddestroy the totalitarian system of the social mainstream to win back their own liberty.Therefore, the aesthetics of violence in the novel is full of power of critical aestheticswith violence against violence. Based on such critical aesthetics of violence, theforces of self-consciousness and self-activity of the disciplined others are awakeningfor their subjective rights on the way when violence against violence.

关 键 词：The Huger GAMES SPATIAL VIOLENT politics power mass media DYSTOPIA 

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