The Farce of Fascism: A Tragedy of Othering and Power in Three Acts

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dc.contributor.advisorStern, Michael
dc.contributor.authorBailey, Natalia
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-24T18:59:06Z
dc.date.available2023-03-24T18:59:06Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-24
dc.description.abstractIn his essay Urfascism, Umberto Eco outlines the various ideological traits that he perceives to be the basic “familial resemblances” of fascism – one of these traits being “the natural fear of difference”. In acknowledgement of growing movements in contemporary American politics that take hostile positions concerning certain minority groups in the United States, The Farce of Fascism attempts to reach an understanding of how these groups are marked as different and pushed out of what is considered acceptable in the dominant morality as defined by the will to power. What follows is an investigation of what I refer to as othering-narratives; narratives with the purpose of essentializing accidental qualities associated with various identities in their relevant discourses. Furthermore, this project considers the intent of such narratives and how they are propagated throughout society, making comparisons with the methods of othering present in colonial Africa and Nazi Germany when relevant.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/28101
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectBiopoliticsen_US
dc.subjectFascismen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectNecropoliticsen_US
dc.subjectOtheringen_US
dc.subjectOthering-Narrativesen_US
dc.titleThe Farce of Fascism: A Tragedy of Othering and Power in Three Acts
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of German and Scandinavian
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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