Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.29162/ANAFORA.v13i1.4
Does It End with Us? Interpersonal Violence in Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us
Biljana Oklopčić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9949-6293
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Motivated by the desire for power, power as domination is in contemporary critical thought comprehended as the continuous, relatively stable control over them/others, that is, those who do not qualify as us/we (Connolly 1974; Coser 1976; Dowding 1996; Hartsock 1974 and 1983; Karlberg 2005; Lukes 1986; Macpherson 1973; Pitkin 1972; Wartenberg 1990). One of the instruments of power as domination is interpersonal violence, which can be exercised in a number of ways, including verbal and visual objectification, prescriptive gender stereotyping, emotional blackmail and/or manipulation, domestic violence, as well as physical child/young adult abuse and school bullying. This paper aims to examine different forms of interpersonal violence in Colleen Hoover’s dramatic romance It Ends with Us (2016) to show that their perpetuation enables and facilitates the exercise of power as domination in the narrative space of Hoover’s novel.
Keywords
power as domination, desire for power, interpersonal violence, Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
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348113
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Publication date:
19.6.2026.
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