Corresponding Resistance to the Operation of Biopower in State Racism: An Application of Foucauldian Framework to Mark Zusak’s Novel

Abstract

This paper explores the Foucauldian conception of powers and their corresponding resistance. Everyday resistance's nature and techniques as a response to the operation of sovereign power, the interdependent disciplinary and biopower, is discerned concerning the events that occur in the novel. It also brings out the way how biopower affected Germany's population and how the nature of power that resulted in its subsequent resistance to the Nazi regime was the cause of its failure.