Ideological Construction of Gender Representation in One Half From the East: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the ideological construction of gender representation in Nadia Hashmi’s Nove, One Half From the East. The study analysed the excerpts from the novel and analysed them from the perspective of critical discourse analysis which functions both as theory and practice. The researcher has used Michael Lazar's Feminist critical discourse analysis as an approach to analyse the selected excerpts from the novel. Lazar offers five praxes in her approach to analyse any kind of text. The selected syntactic structures were analysed with the theoretical consideration of Lazar (2007). She discussed five principles(praxis) to analyse discourse from the perspective of FCDA. The five principles of her theory and practice include feminist analytical resistance, Gender as an ideological structure, The Complexity of gender and power relations, Discourse in the (de) construction of gender, and Critical reflexivity as proxies. Lazar’s second and fourth principles, gender as an ideological structure and Discourse in the (de) construction of gender were applied as a theory and method to analyse the selected texts. Ndia Hashmi's novels are rich sources of ideologically moulded gender discourses The current study unveiled ideological gender representation in the discourse structures. One Half From the East. Furthermore, the ideological assumptions that worked behind the gender representations were also explored.
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