The Secret History of Hamden Campus: A Study in Elitism and Murder
Journal Title: Kultura Popularna - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 55
Abstract
This paper examines Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992) from the perspective of campus spatial modalities and their use or abuse by a privileged group of students. As in other campus mystery novels, the supposedly egalitarian and democratic space of the campus is transformed into an elitist enclave by a group of students who use knowledge-as-power in order to plot the murder of threatening intruders into their exclusive world. The unexpected turn of events brings about the disenchantment of Richard Papen, a low-class but talented, young Californian who enrolls to Hamden, Vermont with high academic expectations. At the same time as it introduces a series of personal disillusionments it also creates a crisis of meaning in the American campus in general.<br/><br/>
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Evangelia Kyriakidou
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