Ageism and Illegal Immigration in Margaret Drabble’s The Dark Flood Rises: An Affect Theory Approach | ||||
| مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة Øلوان | ||||
| Article 6, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2021, Page 1-20 PDF (458.13 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/kgef.2021.218689 | ||||
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Øنان برکات دويدار  
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| جامعة Øلوان | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The present study attempts an affect theory reading of Margaret Drabble’s The Dark Flood Rises (2016). It targets the representation of the two issues of ageism and immigration in the novel and the writer's purpose of representing these cases. The representative characters of these cases are British, Anglo-Egyptian, and Senegalese. The media's bleak representation of these cases and its impact on the audience's attitude is handled as well as the counterpart played by fiction writing to affect a better awareness of ageism and immigration. The two affects focused on are sympathy and empathy; their nature and the social conditions that lead to the simulation of each are highlighted. The different narrative methods employed in these simulations are investigated. The study also attempts to find out why the author does not target the simulation of only one of these affects, either sympathy or empathy, in her portrayal of the characters who represent ageism and immigration. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Sympathy; empathy; media; ageism; immigration; in-group; outgroup | ||||
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