Spatial Confinement and Heterotopic Spaces in Josh Malerman's Bird Box
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2021-06
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UNIVERSITY OF MOHAMED BOUDIAF
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This dissertation endeavour to unfold the heterotopic spaces settled in Josh
Malerman's Novel Bird Box. Within this context, there is a keen interest to examine
Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia as a major literary framework. Additionally,
the main objective of this study is to accentuate a new research area that is related to
spatial studies. Specifically, this thematic analysis seeks to disclose a spatial identity
that corresponds to the description of emplacements within the novel. Therefore, in
order to decipher the colossal enigma of the work, we aimed to utilize a Geocritical
approach as a guiding tool to probe the spatial characteristics of the novel. In stark
contrast to time, this dissertation is thereby to investigate the existential conundrum
of space and how space is being the paramount index of this spatial monograph. Thus,
heterotopia is regarded as a road map to reach the utmost finding, that is first and
foremost, that space has a pivotal role in the production of spatial knowledge
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Key words: heterotopic spaces, heterotopia, spatial identity, emplacements, spatial knowledge.