A Study On Biopolitics Of The Narrow Road To The Deep North

The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a representative of Australian writer Richard Flanagan.Flanagan won The Booker Prize in 2014.The novel mainly tells the story of a group of Australian prisoners from the Japanese in the Second World War to build a "death railway" in the border between Thailand and Myanmar,which is also inserted with an Australian doctor Dorigo Evans and Ella sad love story.This thesis takes Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North as the main object of study,and uses the Foucault ’s and Agamben ’s biopolitics theories to interpret the text.This thesis consists of three parts.In the first part,emphasize the extreme control of the double power on the lives of prisoners.In closed concentration camps,The Japanese rulers achieved the purpose of discipline through specific group division of labor,detailed work schedule and strict hierarchical monitoring.They regard the prisoners as a low-class race,the death of a low race is a matter of course.National racism is the root cause of biopower to perform death functions,which fits the murder logic behind the Japanese Fasis War.In the end,under the violent punishment and spiritual deterrence of the Japanese army,the prisoners became "Docile and useful body".In the second part,inquiry the "Bare life" is controlled by Sovereign Power.In the war,Japanese soldiers and prisoners entered the discipline camps and harsh hospital,which means they were excluded from the political community,and they were all marched into the "Homo Sacer".In the State of Exception,Japanese soldiers and prisoners were common victims,and their lives were mastered by sovereaker.In the third part,analysis two resistance power reflected in the text.In the war,in order to help the prisoners,Dorigo fought anti-Japanese commands.After the war,survivors use the evidence preserved in the war to expose the ugly behavior of the Japanese army’s continuous development of war and forget history.Compared to the positive resistance behavior of Dorigo,The prisoners of war under the oppression of double power,their way to resist power is hidden and inner.The prisoners achieve the purpose of resisting the self-contrast to individual body and psychological trauma by resisting and eliminating power relations.The conclusion is that The Narrow Road to the Deep North is an important part of the reflection of humanity and anti-polar violence in the War Literature of Australia.Flanagan pays attention to the destiny of nobody who are exploited under the cruel war,the author portraits a group of distinctive prisoners of war,and presenting a little bit of history behind the blood and tears.Flanagan stood on the humanitarian position on Second World War II,called on people to see World War II in a correct attitude.That is,remember history and vigilant hate.