Globalization and its discontents in richard powers' plowing the dark
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2022
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Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi
Abstract
Globalization is considered as a historical trend towards the expansion of the world and
an increase in awareness of the extent of this expansion, and it appears in many aspects. And
this is what we can notice in Richard Power's novel "Plowing the Dark". Which is to talk
about the role of globalization in developing the world by using programming and art? This
study of the novel focuses on Marxist feminist reading, which helps to show how
globalization is paving the way for the imagination to create a virtual real world. The novel
essentially depicts the struggle of males and females to realize their dreams using art and
software to make fantasy a reality by focusing on woman and nature and the power of man
to
gain the world and create the world in which they want to live. The study of the novel also
talks about Orientalism and its interest in the east and the west and the difference between
them. Finally, the pre-colonial study shows that the relevant novel presents the English
language as well as art as a form of resistance against Islamic fendamantalisman according to
Taimur's story and his struggle to not lose his mind.
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Feminism, Globalization, Plowing the Dark