Antonio Gramsci's Hegemony In White Noise
Jamila Hoque
Golam Rabbani Shihab
English-520
2016-2-93-008
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This study delineates the use of cultural hegemony in Don DeLillo’s White Noise through the vintage points of Italian critic Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) who clarifies domination of the ruling class over ruled class. Cultural Hegemony is the mastery of the middle class and governing groups among the lower divisions. Antonio Gramsci declares that the only means of keeping cultural hegemony by super leaders is not the handling of power and coercion; instead, consent, language, use of intellectual men and educational instruments are the ways regarding the implementation of cultural hegemony; his distinction between traditional
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