• Dr. Indrani Datta (Chaudhuri)

This article explores the protest against sovereign control that is imminent in Kahlil Gibran's magnum opus, The Prophet (1923). It shows how the text opens up new 'spaces' within 'historical places' in which sovereignty and its politics of exclusion are contested. In doing so, Gibran’s Prophet, like its author, belongs neither here nor there, but on a ‘non-landish’ terrain. This sense of not belonging to any homogenous nation-state offers a counter-discourse to the anthropocentric and anthropogenic machineries of sovereignty and, hence can be defined as 'non-landish'. In order to critique this non-landishness I take the cue from Girogio Agamben’s theories that has the potential to weaken the monopoly, in global literary studies, of hegemonic discourses and theories that undermine, even fail to understand, the historical, cultural and ideological contexts of Third World literatures, and break the failure/refusal of those writers, critics and intellectuals who neither write back nor wake up from the traumatic experiences of being utilized by dominant discourses. Such a framework analyzes Gibran’s Prophet as an attempt to counter the monolithic structures of sovereign control.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, Giorgio Agamben, Sovereignty, Third World Literatures, Exile.

"‘Non-landish’: Reading Kahlil Gibran’s Prophet as a Protest against Sovereign Control", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.b643-b656, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106233.pdf

"‘Non-landish’: Reading Kahlil Gibran’s Prophet as a Protest against Sovereign Control", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppb643-b656, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106233.pdf