Counter Hegemony: A Critical Study of Jeremy Robert Johnson’s The Loop

Abstract

Popular culture can be defined as the dominating trend or vogue which prevails during a particular period of time. It is sure that such a prominent practice can eventually become a habit in the ones who follow it. This sort of a culture will be thought of as something worthy to be accepted. The research assumes such people as the proletariat group who unconsciously suffer without suspicion or questioning under the money-minded corporates. The current research explores the internalization of popular culture within the Gen Z. The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson acts as a postmodern text which throws light on such hegemony and acts as a counter-cultural text book and reconstructs misconceptions in popular culture. The research concludes that there is hope amidst crisis and youngsters can aspire for a more peaceful world by using their fragmented world as a tool to reconstruct an identity of their own.