How Can a Body Under Surveillance Rediscover Its Own Himalaya? Transcendence, Language, and Sensory Liberation in Johanna Sinisalo’s The Core of the Sun
სჯანი November 2, 2026 Aishwarya Thapa
This article examines Johanna Sinisalo’s Finnish dystopian novel The Core of the Sun (Finnish original: Auringon ydin, 2013; English translation by Lola Rogers, 2016) through the intersecting lenses of Foucauldian biopolitics, feminist body theory, and South Asian epistemologies of inner transcendence. Set in a fictional “Eusistocratic Republic of Finland,” the novel imagines a technocratic...