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- Title
A FOUCAULDIAN READING OF THE MONARCHY IN HATSHEPSUT'S EGYPT.
- Authors
Sakseena Mohammed M.
- Abstract
'Power', may be, one of the key concepts gaining considerable importance in the academic parlance of thinking for centuries. Michael Foucault's ideas and invaluable explorations regarding the notions ofpower standas animmobileinfluenceto Foucult elaborately asserts how power plays and controls human's mobility and freedom through different agencies like prisons, hospitals, mental asylum's etc. etc. The present study problematizes how the monarchicpower acts and controls the kingdom andits inhabitants to a certain extent Kara Coonev's one of the popular biographies titled The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsufs rise to power in ancient Egypt' shows Hatshepsut the queen's charismatic rule and valor in ancient Egypt and also her longstanding command over traditionofthe narratives thatneed to be historicized'properly.
- Subjects
POWER (Social sciences) in literature; MONARCHY in literature; TEMPLE of Hatshepsut (Egypt); FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; WOMAN Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, The (Book); COONEY, Kara, 1972-
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 3, p279
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article