A Study of RSAs in Brandon Hobson’s The Removed
Keywords:
Althusser, RSAs, Brandon Hobson, The RemovedAbstract
This study analyzes Brandon Hobson’s The Removed through the lens of Repressive State Apparatuses presented in Althusser’s work Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. Published in 1971, this work is a comprehensive discussion on class conflict in which the bourgeois exercise their repression over the proletariat by means of an ideology. This study explores how RSAs inflict unbearable sufferings on a marginalized Cherokee Indian community in, Quah, Oklahoma. The Indian community is mercilessly tortured and murdered by means of police, army, and courts in order to remove them from their native lands. Consequently, the murder of Tsala’s whole family followed by Ray-Ray Echota’s killing manifests ideology-oriented repression with a view to promulgate The Indian Removal Act. Besides highlighting the structures of ideology behind RSAs, it explores psychological impact of repression on the entire suffering community, especially the Echotas. By investigating repressive state apparatuses and their psychological issues, this study makes the public know the roots of repression in a capitalist ideology.
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