Jamil Akhtar

University of The Punjab
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    Disciplining the Deviant: A Foucauldian Analysis of Criminal Subjectivity in ‘The Lock Artist’
    with Dr Husnat Ahmed, Nargis Saleem, Tooba Tehrim, and Ali Hayat
    Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 1521-1532. forthcoming.
    The present research applies Michel Foucault's perspectives on discipline and punishment to Steve Hamilton's novel The Lock Artist, exploring the criminal subjectivity of the protagonist beyond the binary of good and evil. Through textual analysis, the study examines the norms, upbringing, and circumstances that shape the protagonist's identity as a deviant and criminal. The research also investigates the role of confession as a tool of the modern state in altering the subjectivity of its subjec…Read more