Khodajou Masouleh, Nabiolah, Barekat, Behzad (2022). Faciality and De-facialization in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Deleuze and Guattari’s Semiotic Study. , 13(5), 303-324. doi: 10.52547/LRR.13.5.12
Nabiolah Khodajou Masouleh; Behzad Barekat. "Faciality and De-facialization in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Deleuze and Guattari’s Semiotic Study". , 13, 5, 2022, 303-324. doi: 10.52547/LRR.13.5.12
Khodajou Masouleh, Nabiolah, Barekat, Behzad (2022). 'Faciality and De-facialization in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Deleuze and Guattari’s Semiotic Study', , 13(5), pp. 303-324. doi: 10.52547/LRR.13.5.12
Khodajou Masouleh, Nabiolah, Barekat, Behzad Faciality and De-facialization in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Deleuze and Guattari’s Semiotic Study. , 2022; 13(5): 303-324. doi: 10.52547/LRR.13.5.12

Faciality and De-facialization in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Deleuze and Guattari’s Semiotic Study

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Article 12, Volume 13, Issue 5 - Serial Number 71, 1401, Pages 303-324    PDF (899.39 K)
Document Type: مقاله انتقادی و مفهومی
DOI: 10.52547/LRR.13.5.12
Authors
Nabiolah Khodajou Masouleh* 1; Behzad Barekat2
1M.A in English Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
2Associate Professor in English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
Abstract
This study offers a re-reading of Ken Kesey’s oeuvre, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, employing Deleuze and Guattari’s semiotics of Face and their concept of regime of signs; it tries to map the workings of Face as an impersonal despotic system that emerges from the mixture of two regimes of signs that facilitates surveillance, discrimination and control. It also pinpoints the potentiality and activities of escape from this system, and the emergence of signs of disruptive faciality. Analyzing the facial activities of three characters in the novel, namely, Nurse Ratched, Chief Bromden and Randel McMurphy, the study elaborates on the following facial aspects: the State’s policies of facialization in Nurse Ratched; the schizoid experience of faciality in Chief Bromden and the suspense of the face system in McMurphy. Besides the produced mappings, the reader also meets a set of newly conceptualized functionalities of faces, contributed by the particular signs this context provides, namely, the catatonic face, the synaptic face and the carnivalesque faces.
Keywords
Deleuze and Guattari; Kesey; faciality; regime of signs; white wall/black hole
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