The Nightmarish Odyssey of Women Stuck in the Dystopian Lottery: Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket

İsmail AVCU

Article Details

The Nightmarish Odyssey of Women Stuck in the Dystopian Lottery: Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket

Authors:

İsmail AVCU

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Literature

Journal:

Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 2021 Vol.31 Issue 1, pp.43-74

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2021

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000516209

Frequency:

Monthly

eISSN:

2602-2117

Abstract:

 

Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket touches upon the issues of gender roles, femininity, motherhood  as  well  as  oppression,  dystopian  restrictions,  the  abandonment  of  free  will  and  predetermined  life.  As  a  lottery  is  used  in  the  narrative  to  determine  women’s lives, the deconstruction of gender roles as well as a nightmarish system of oppression of women are thoroughly analysed in the novel. Since women’s writing and women’s issues have become quite relevant and topical today, Blue Ticket offers a deeper analysis and a horrible story about the aforementioned concepts. This  paper  aims  to  show  how  gender  roles  and  the  existence  of  women  are  reflected in Mackintosh’s feminist dystopian narrative Blue Ticket by making use of Luce Irigaray’s, Helene Cixous’s and Michel Foucault’s theories in which femininity, sex,  gender  roles,  biological  representation,  and  panopticon  become  prominent.  Considering the fact that women’s writing and restrictions of gender roles go hand in  hand  in  contemporary  British  fiction,  this  study  brings  out  significant  results  about  how  Mackintosh  evaluates  those  issues  with  a  unique  voice  and  what  her  female  characters  tell  the  readers  about  living  a  pre-determined  life.  In  a  world  where  women  are  given  only  two  options,  which  are  provided  by  pure  chance  in  a lottery, of either having a baby or being used for the sexual pleasure of men, the conventional  issues  of  femininity  and  gender  roles  are  scrutinized  with  current  patriarchal power relations and dystopian regimes.

Article Details

The Nightmarish Odyssey of Women Stuck in the Dystopian Lottery: Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket

Authors: İsmail AVCU

Publisher: Istanbul University

Main Topics: Literature

Journal: Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 2021 Vol.31 Issue 1, pp.43-74

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 6/2021

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000516209

Frequency: Monthly

eISSN: 2602-2117

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Authors:

İsmail AVCU

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Literature

Journal:

Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 2021 Vol.31 Issue 1, pp.43-74

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2021

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000516209

Frequency:

Monthly

eISSN:

2602-2117