Critical Discourse Analysis of the Short Story “My Son the Fanatic” By Hanif Kureishi

Authors

  • Farukh Arslan National University of Modern Languages, Faisalabad Campus, Pakistan
  • Hira Haroon Department of Applied Linguistics, the Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • Maryam Shakeel The Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

Keywords:

Critical Discourse Analysis, Short story, Fairclough, Ideology, identity

Abstract

This research aims to study social power relations in a postcolonial hybrid culture. The purpose is to reveal what lexicons are used to control power. The researcher manually collected words expressing power and analyzed the characters and their languages ​​embodied in Pakistani literature. My Son the Fanatic, a short story by Hanif Kureishi is a story of Parvaiz and his son, who rejects his father's Western secularism and returns to strict Islamic fundamentalism. This study follows Fairclough's critical discourse analysis model for studying the power relationship. Discourse analysis is a very coherent model for analyzing spoken and written language in the text of a short story. The results show that power is a constantly changing phenomenon. However, male dominance is seen in the language and social practices of postcolonial literature.

Author Biographies

Farukh Arslan, National University of Modern Languages, Faisalabad Campus, Pakistan

Muhammad Farukh ARSLAN is a lecturer at National University of Modern Languages, Faisalabad Campus, Pakistan. Muhammad Farukh ARSLAN also serves as a visiting lecturer in Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF) and is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Applied Linguistics, GCUF, Pakistan. 

Hira Haroon, Department of Applied Linguistics, the Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

Hira HAROON is a lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Government College University Faisalabad and currently she also serves as a visiting lecturer in National Textile University Faisalabad in 2022. She completed her MPhil in 2020 at the Government College University Faisalabad.

Maryam Shakeel, The Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

Maryam SHAKEEL is currently enrolled in the MPhil in Applied Linguistics at the Government College University Faisalabad.

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Published

2023-01-02

How to Cite

Arslan, F., Haroon, H., & Shakeel, M. . (2023). Critical Discourse Analysis of the Short Story “My Son the Fanatic” By Hanif Kureishi. Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, 2(01). Retrieved from http://jhkpress.com/index.php/mlll/article/view/84

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 01 (2023)

Section

Articles