Social and Psychological Alienation in Barnes’s Above the ether (2019)
| dc.contributor.author | Iassamen Kahina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-06T09:02:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-06T09:02:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description | 68p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research investigates the impact of human excessive abuse of nature in Eric Barnes’s Above the ether (2019) which is represented as a revenge of nature. In order to analyze the vengeance of nature on society and individuals’ psychology, this study relies on Ecocriticism and Psychoanalysis. The first chapter relies on some ecocritical concepts that examine the relationship between nature and man. It aims to delve into the characters’ belief that nature is a passive recipient of human’s actions. This plays a major role in bringing about the postapocalypse, which has an effect on social life. The second chapter employs Frank Johnson’s “Psychological Alienation: Isolation and Self-estrangement” as a framework to scrutinize the impact of social alienation on characters’ psychological conditions. The investigation of the issue under study has led to some findings. People’s overuse of chemicals and pollutants caused climate change. Natural disasters have severe consequences on social and individual relations. The post-apocalyptic environment results in social decline that causes fundamental changes at a social level. There are six characters who are socially alienated in the novel namely the investor, the father, the stranger, the carousel operator, the restaurant manager and the doctor. Every character resides either alone or with one partner or family member. Moreover, social alienation has a direct impact on the individuals’ psyche. Because some of the characters become self-alienated as they do not wish to communicate with their family members, friends, or other individuals. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Literature and Civilization | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/26403 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mouloud Mammeri University | |
| dc.subject | Post-apocalyptic environment | |
| dc.subject | Social alienation | |
| dc.subject | Psychological alienation | |
| dc.subject | Ecocriticism | |
| dc.subject | Psychoanalysis | |
| dc.title | Social and Psychological Alienation in Barnes’s Above the ether (2019) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |