Abstract: The purpose of the present thesis is to explore Hegemony and Search of Meaning in the Post-apocalyptic Fiction: The Case of Blindness by José Saramago. The researcher through Gramsci’s concept of hegemony, and defining meaning making process try to lay down the foundation for thesis questions. Fiction and fictionality is significant as well. What happens after the apocalypse the new world order is found and un-named characters joggle to find meaning. Even if they are led by their ideologies and the hegemony over them, they try to find their way out of the given world and salvage themselves. The role ideology plays is significant as well.
Even if they are struck by an unknown white blindness, eventually however, they find their eyesight back and continue to live their lives, even if the Doctor’s wife states that they have always been blind, but seeing. Their commotion and actives in the clandestine and forsaken sanitarium is so significant by being in direct stream of the whole thesis that all concepts of hegemony, ideology, search for a meaning, and a post-apocalyptic fiction are fully investigated.
The conclusion would be the notion that Doctor’s wife mentioned. We may find salvation, but we are taken aback by our eternal blindness which we may never want to see the truth due to being stricken by hegemony of ideology, playing an important part in our background and the way we see the world as our frame of reference.
Keywords: ideology, fictionality of the real, Logocentricism, Hegemony, post-apocalyptic fiction.
Title: Hegemony and Search of Meaning in the Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: The Case of Blindness by José Saramago
Author: Mojtaba Mohammadi
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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