Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ideology working behind Tariq Ali’s novel The Stone Woman through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by applying corpus driven approach. Gee’s (2011) CDA tools have been used to explore the ideology working behind the novel. This ideology has been subjected to Althusser’s (1969) theory of ideology to find how Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) collaborates with Repressive State Apparatus (RSA) to naturalize and internalize certain ideologies. It has been concluded that the supremacy of the male members of the family and society has been accepted as an ideology and this ideology has been naturalized and internalized by using certain institutions like marriage, family, customs and traditions. Not only the ideologies have been institutionalized but also this process works for the extension, strength and dominance of the male members of the society.
Highlights
This paper is the critical discourse analysis of Tariq Ali’s novel The Stone Woman
The male chauvinism is at the peak in that society and this dominance of the male members of the society leads to the deprivation of the rights of the female members of the society
There is a close relationship between language and ideology and the object of the present study is to explore this relationship
Summary
This paper is the critical discourse analysis of Tariq Ali’s novel The Stone Woman. The aim of study is to explore the ideology working behind the narrative of Tariq Ali. The focus of the present study is the gender discrimination which is the pop up feature as we analyze the corpus of the narrative. The male chauvinism is at the peak in that society and this dominance of the male members of the society leads to the deprivation of the rights of the female members of the society. This exploitation of the male members has been institutionalized. The process of oppression of women is carried out so implicitly that nothing seems unnatural and out of the way to us
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