STATE SOVEREIGHNTY AND THE SUBJECT OF HOMO SACER IN NOVEL THE INNOCENT MAN BY JOHN GRISHAM
Nur Aisyah

UGM Pascasarjana Magister, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya

Abstract

This study aims to analyze and reveal the form of state sovereignty and its relationship to the life of each individual or citizen in John Grisham^s 2006 novel The Innocent Man (TIM). The analysis was carried out based on the political philosophy point of view put forward by Giorgio Agamben. Agamben questions the relationship between sovereignty and individual life in which a person^s life is reduced to bare life through biopolitics. In the bare life, a person has nothing but humanity, even humanity is stripped of himself. The method used is a qualitative method by analyzing data using hermeneutics techniques.
The result of this research is that 1)John Grisham in his TIM work describes the sovereignty of America in particular in the Oklahoma area in overcoming murder cases, by politicizing the lives of Ron Williansom, Dennis Fritz, Tomy Ward, and Karl Fontenot into the bare life which is called modern biopolitics which produces Homo sacer where Homo Sacer is an individual or group that is outside the law or suspending the law itself. The legal suspension or state of exception carried out by the state towards its citizens who are considered guilty determines the existence of Ron Williansom, Dennis Fritz, Tomy Ward, and Karl Fontenot as Homo Sacer subjects. As Homo Sacer Ron Willianson the other suspects get totally exclusion in the realm of social life by putting suspects in prison as death defendants. It shows the rasionality of in produce power.

Keywords: Keywords: State Sovereignty, Bare Life, Exception, Homo Sacer.

Topic: Humanities