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Sam Snyder

writer - student - poet

enthusiast of nature, weird formatting, and speculative fiction of all sorts.

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About Me.

Sam Snyder [they/them] is currently pursuing a degree in Creative Writing at some small liberal arts college or another. They write everything from poetry to flash fiction horror, speculative novels to nonfiction essays about the photo album on their phone about floors. Their work has been published by Black Hare Press and, more impressively, their hometown newspaper when they were twelve. When they aren't in class or at work, they can be found typing up creative nonsense in their local library or watching early 2000's TV in bed with their cat.

The Games of the Gaze
Power Transferred through Surveillance in The Hunger Games

The Games of the Gaze:

Power Transferred through Surveillance in The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games has an expansive literary tradition of being a prime example for Michel Foucault’s Panopticon, featuring a surveillance state where the ever-watching panoptic gaze is manipulated into a tool of agency for the oppressed. While the panoptic gaze plays a major role within the novel, the true arc of Katniss Everdeen’s agency cannot be fully analyzed without taking into consideration Laura Mulvey’s varied scopophilic gazes and bell hooks’ theories of the oppositional gaze. Through her journey towards wielding the gaze as power, Katniss Everdeen provides examples of what occurs when the oppositional gaze is utilized to its fullest in the face of a panoptic and scopophilic gaze.

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