Interplay of Power Relations in Neeharika’s Yogmaya: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Tirtha Raj Niraula
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Voice

This article aims at exploring how Neelam Karki Niharika‘s Yogmaya presents the complex web of power relations that comprise domination, submission, and resistance. It mainly draw son Michel Foucault‘s idea that power is pervasive, not just oppressive but productive as well. Viewed from the Foucauldian notion of power as a theoretical framework, the study reveals the interplay of dominant and counter discourses in propagating knowledge and truth that are constructed and reconstructed. The novel is treated as a site of struggle where the state power along with the discourses of religion, patriarchy, and gender roles prominently operate so as to suppress the voice of the dissent. Yogmaya, a rural woman of the humble background, continuously resists both verbally and physically against various forms of power in the face of threats. She exercises her power in the same way as those who traditionally believe they possess it. In this connection, the focus lies on the protagonist‘s persistent attempts of resistance through the bold interrogation of the hegemonizing discourses and regimes of truth. As the text under study is written in Nepali, I use transliteration and free translation in order to cite the lines for analysis.

Queer Masculinities: Gender Roles, the Abject and Bottomhood in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-757
Author(s):  
Christina Slopek
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Language Politics ◽  
White American ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
Gender Performances ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article analyzes queerness in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), teasing out how the queer relationship at the core of the novel is framed. Ocean Vuong’s novel mobilizes queerness to straddle boundaries between cultures, gender roles and bodies. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous places the queer sexual orientations and gender performances of its protagonists, one Vietnamese American, one white American, in firm relation to the formative force of cultural contexts. Zooming in on two young boys’ queerness, the novel diversifies gender roles and makes room especially for non-normative masculinities. What is more, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous mobilizes the abject to showcase how queer sexual intimacy straddles boundaries between bodies and subjects. The article attends to language politics in connection with the novel’s coming-out performance, striated constructions of gender roles and their interplay with the abject and “bottomhood” (Nguyen 2014: 2) to come to grips with the novel’s diversification of queer masculinities.

Changing (?) Gender Roles Within Conservative Communities: An Analysis of Group Interview Narratives of Bedouin Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-509
Author(s):  
Ayelet Harel-Shalev ◽  
Rebecca Kook ◽  
Feniar Elkrenawe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Group Interview ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Multiple Modes ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Face ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Group Interviews

Abstract This article focuses on the creative and innovative modes of negotiation that women in severely patriarchal societies often exhibit in their attempts to actively pursue their own goals in the face of risk. Based on group interviews with Bedouin women in southern Israel about their everyday lives, the research explores both the risks and the ways in which the women deal with them. The research expands on discussions about the nature of women’s agency in the context of the power relations prevalent in specific communities, paying attention to the multiple modes of subordination experienced by the women of such communities.

scholarly journals “It’s All One Big Fantasy”: The Critique of Modernity in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Katya Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Russian Idea

The opposition between Europe and Russia runs through Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, culminating in Mme Epanchina’s declaration that both Europe and the Russians who travel to Europe are “one big fantasy” [Dostoevsky, 2002, p. 615]. In the novel, Dostoevsky uses the exile trope as a literary tool for expressing his Russian idea. Although the spiritual underpinnings of Dostoevsky’s nationalism have been well studied, the secular side of this concept bears further exploration. Peter Wagner argues that nationalism constitutes a response to the nostalgia that is developed in exile following one’s breaking away from tradition. Nineteenth-century nationalism specifically “was an attempt to recreate a sense of origins in the face of the disembedding effects of early modernity and capitalism” [Wagner, 2001, p. 103]. By applying Wagner’s theoretical framework to Dostoevsky’s narrative, the author demonstrates that in its secular essence, Dostoevsky’s nationalism is not a merely localized manifestation of a uniquely Russian sentiment, but a symptom of a larger phenomenon that was taking place in late nineteenth-century Europe. Because Mme Epanchina gets to say the final word in Dostoevsky’s novel, her role and the subtleties of her message will be the primary focus of the present analysis.

scholarly journals Women’s Participation in Politics as Represented in the Novel “In Praise of Hatred”

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Nor Fatin Abdul Jabar ◽  
Kamariah Yunus ◽  
Nurul Fatihah Muhamad Nazmi ◽  
Muhammad Farriz Aziz ◽  
Nurul Afiqah Muhammad Zani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
And Gender

In today’s reality, there is a definite gap when it comes to men’s and women’s participation in politics. It can be seen that the society prefers men to lead them, make decisions and solve problems. The society assumes men to have better leadership qualities, but people tend to be sceptical when it comes to women. In Syria, men’s responsibilities as leaders and the ones who make decisions are valued highly by the Syrian society. They believe that men’s power and abilities to lead are more stable, prosperous and secure than women. Among the society, women are considered as subordinates and excluded from negotiations. This matter is highlighted in Syrian literature too, especially in novels and writings since masculinity, is practiced in Syrian society. This present study attempted to investigate the gender stereotypes on politics portrayed in the novel “In Praise of Hatred”, by Khaled Khalifa. The present study employed a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach to investigate the pragmatic representation of politics portrayed in the controversial Syrian novel. The findings focused on the representation of women in politics. To this end, Van Dijk’s Social-political Discourse Analysis Approach was adopted to reveal the ideology behind the constructions. The issues of gender and politics were analysed based on the pragmatic representation in the novel. Adopting the Social-political Discourse Analysis approach under Sociocognitive Discourse Studies (SCDS), the criteria of social aspects (politics and gender) were being looked at thoroughly. Regarding subject positions, the data analysis showed that the portrayal of gender is always biased and women’s participation in politics is not encouraged.

scholarly journals Bodies, violence, silencing: The transgenderity discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 297-313
Author(s):  
André Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Production Conditions

By reflecting upon the discourse production conditions, the imagination of/on trans individuals and the temporal landmark of the 2018 elections in Brazil, I aim to analyze the relationship between silencing and resistance of/to the trans body in the virtual space. To this end, I selected two pieces of news posted on digital media, one about the play O Evangelho Segundo Jesus, Rainha do Céu[free translation: The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven], which was interdicted in the Winter Festival of Garanhuns, State of Pernambuco, and the other about a ‘travesti’ murder in Sao Paulo. I analyzed these pieces to understand the dispute of meanings involving the trans corporeality based on the theoretical framework provided by the Materialist Discourse Analysis. Complementarily, I analyzed the comments on the news, as this is a space where the individuals, under the illusion that everything can be said, produce discourses in tune with the trans cause or hate discourses that delegitimize, make silent and displace meanings about such bodies.

Ecofeminism and Post-Apocalyptic Environments in Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talia Gukert
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Apocalyptic Literature ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Complete Reversal ◽  
And Gender

This paper examines the significance of post-apocalyptic narratives as a means of expressing deep-seated anxieties about colonialism, capitalism, and cultural erasure in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning. By viewing the novel through an ecofeminist lens, I seek to illuminate and explain the political changes Roanhorse’s post-apocalyptic world, and how this new environment allows for the transformation of social and gender structures of power. The theory of ecofeminism relies upon the belief that both women and nature are equally compromised and exploited by the patriarchy, constrained by the masculine forces of colonialization and capitalism. By situating her novel in a post-apocalyptic environment, Roanhorse implies that just as the earth has asserted its power over the effects of unrestricted capitalism through the consequences of global warming, Indigenous women have similarly taken back their powers of autonomy, liberating themselves from traditional gender roles. This paper shows how the connection between women and nature is most evident in the novel’s female protagonist, Maggie, who has been able to aggressively deviate from traditional gender norms and expectations due to the apocalypse. Through this complete reversal of common gender tropes in post-apocalyptic literature, Roanhorse demonstrates that the apocalypse has proven to be instrumental in freeing women from the constraints of gender roles, advocating the ecofeminist view that cooperation between women and nature is necessary for the liberation of both.

The market between symbolic violence and emancipation: The case of female hardcore gamers

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-41
Author(s):  
Alexandre Tiercelin ◽  
Eric Remy
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
The Face ◽  
Typical Path ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to understand the process of market-based identity-building by looking at the life stories of female hardcore gamers. A dual theoretical framework is used: identity-building through consumption and gender via symbolic violence. Analysis of the meaning attributed to the underlying consumption practices and identity mindsets in the face of a masculine market norm reveals the following: (1) the relationship between female hardcore gamers and the gendered norm of the gaming market for hyper-players; (2) the ways in which this norm is appropriated and (3) the typical path of the female gamers concerned. The findings enable a discussion about the notion of symbolic violence driven by the market, where gender becomes an identity resource that can be manipulated through consumption practices that can lead to a certain emancipation, primarily linked to the possession of capital.

scholarly journals A Likely Story: The Da Vinci Code as Work on Myth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Diane Norma Morris
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sacred Feminine ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
Popular Knowledge ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site ◽  
And Control ◽  
Gender Knowledge

<p>Theory of myth is used as an explanatory framework within which to explore the enormous and controversial popular appeal of the novel The Da Vinci Code, first published in 2003. The Da Vinci Code is a site of contestation between truth and falsity. Modernity has used the category of myth to contain and control false stories that claim to be true. Myth is characterised here as story-with-significance but also as story believed by people other than scholars and the guardians of legitimate culture. The novel reinserts story into religious history, finding 'natural' significances to replace those progressively exposed and expunged by scholarship and liberal theology. Code's major themes, the sacred feminine and the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, endorse popular knowledge about religion, inheritance, identity, community and gender, knowledge that is threatened by detraditionalisation, feminism, and modernity's emphasis on the autonomous individual. The bloodline myth's move into the category of fiction further blurs the boundaries between the legitimately true and the mythically false.</p>

scholarly journals Home as a Site of Resistance: A Study on Agunpakhi by Hasan Azizul Huq

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Md. Shamim Mondol
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Common ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
A Site

This paper is an attempt to investigate Hasan Azizul Huq’s much awaited novel Agunpakhi to explore the potencies and potentials of home as an empowering site of resistance. The novel commonly studied as a counter narrative on the Partition of India has multilayered implications embedded in it. One such dimension is the exploration of home place by contesting the common ideas to redefine its scopes. Home is normally studied as a sequestered space of deprivation and gendered marginalization. The inhabitants inhibited there by the social apparatuses are simply seized mentally. The consequent ideas built around home as a site showcase it impotence, and imposing character with no productive aspects. But the lived experiences of the inhabitants and their resultant practices if studied out of the box exhibit the excellences of home as a nurturing ground for raising resistances against the oppressors. To concentrate on these empowering aspects of the space, I will draw on bell hooks for her insights on home as a site of resistance. The research will advance the argument that home is a place of care and nurturance in the face of harsh realities facilitating the emergence of voices and subjectivity leading to emancipation from exigencies of marginalization.  

scholarly journals Pesan Dakwah dalam Novel Athirah

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-362
Author(s):  
Nina Herlina ◽  
Dang Eif Saiful Amin ◽  
Rohmanur Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face

ABSTRACTThis paper aims to determine how the macro-structure of the novel Athirah propaganda message, superstructure message Athirah propaganda in the novel, and the microstructure of propaganda messages in the novel Athirah Endah Alberthiene work. The research method using the method of discourse analysis approach is qualitative, in discourse analysis Teun A. Van Dijk models is researching on the search for the macro-structure of thematic text. while the superstructure is discussed in the schematic, and the microstructure of the text that is in terms of semantic, syntactic, stylistic and rhetorical. The results showed that in the structure of the macro in this novel are arranged in the theme of patience, and a woman named Athirah toughness in the face of life's trials. In the superstructure Alberthiene Endah make this novel with the flow back and forth, there are grooves that tell of the past, but still easily understood by the reader. While the microstructure Alberthiene Endah using language that is quite extensive and figurative language or imagery. Tenses used mostly using active voice form. ABSTRAKTulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana struktur makro pesan dakwah dalam novel Athirah, Superstruktur pesan dakwah dalam novel Athirah, dan struktur mikro pesan dakwah dalam novel Athirah karya Alberthiene Endah. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode pendekatan analisis wacana bersifat kualitatif, Dalam analisis wacana model Teun A. Van Dijk ini meneliti tentang mencari struktur makro teks tentang tematik. sedangkan superstruktur dibahas dalam skematik, dan struktur mikro teks yaitu dari segi semantik, sintaksis, stilistik dan retoris. Hasil penelitian menunjukan yaitu secara struktur makro dalam novel ini disusun dalam tema kesabaran, dan ketangguhan seorang perempuan bernama Athirah dalam menghadapi cobaan hidup. Secara superstruktur Alberthiene Endah membuat novel ini dengan alur maju mundur, ada alur yang menceritakan masa lampau, namun tetap mudah dimengerti oleh pembaca. Sedangkan secara struktur mikro Alberthiene Endah menggunakan bahasa yang cukup luas dan bahasa kiasan atau perumpamaan. Bentuk kalimat yang digunakan kebanyakan menggunakan bentuk kalimat aktif.  

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