Interpellation of Individual in Roley's American Son

Abstract

Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son depicts that the interpellation of the individual is the system created by the capitalist social configuration. Tomas has been influenced by cultures, education systems, traditions, and behaviors in which the capitalistic ideology is deeply embedded. He gets often attracted to the myth of American Son, American success, and possesses an instinctual dislike to his own dark Asian colour. His disobedience towards his own Phillipino culture and extreme form of hegemony in America is the result of capitalism. Therefore, Tomas is representative character of other non-western people who are interpellated by such capitalistic ideology