نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
گروه زبان شناسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه پیام نور، تهران، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
موضوعات
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
This research uses Sara Mills' post-structuralist feminist framework and the concept of "communities of practice" to analyze patriarchal discourse in Shirzad Hassan's novel "The Yard and My Father's Dogs". Employing a qualitative approach and critical feminist discourse analysis, the data comprises linguistic material, speeches, commands, threats, and character statements (father, narrator, women) in dialogues and narrative monologues, extracted through purposive sampling from the entire novel. The unit of analysis is any utterance indicating gendered power relations, gender-based impoliteness, or resistance. In the novel, the yard functions as a closed, self-sufficient community of practice where the father systematically uses gendered impoliteness to reproduce and impose rigid gender norms. Findings reveal that impoliteness in the father's speech is the primary tool for controlling and shaping gender identities: his exclusive masculinity as the "only lion of the yard," femininity reduced to "female animals in a cage," and children as "castrated/eunuch" beings. This discourse operates through three mechanisms: 1) gendered animalization of women and children, 2) threat of castration to eliminate sexual rivals, and 3) absolute prohibition of expressing sexual desire outside the father's will. Membership in this community requires absolute obedience to these norms. The results suggest that by radically exposing these mechanisms, the novel offers a critique of traditional Kurdish patriarchy while demonstrating that even after the father's physical death, his dominant discursive and psychological structures persist in the survivors' mentality, suspending any possibility of liberation.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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