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Across anthropology, the work of philosopher and historian Michel Foucault has been hugely influential in understanding how different systems of power emerge and interact throughout history (Lynch, 2013). Identifying sovereign power, disciplinary power and biopower as ways that dominant powers cause a citizen to yield to the will of the state (Foucault, 1982), Foucault also highlighted how the production of ‘docile bodies’ that positively self-regulate to engage with and repr

Power aims to control society by manipulating people in different ways. Literature is perhaps one of the power's main instruments. But, how can thought control be achieved through literature? Since power is founded on ideology, the preservation of that ideology can compromise and even ban the literary discourse. In fact, literature has a non-identical relevance according to the historical period. During the communist period, for instance, literature had tremendous power in so