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Title POWER DYNAMICS VIS-À-VIS IDENTITY CRISIS IN TABOO: A STYLISTIC STUDY

Author(s) HAJRA AKHLAQ

Abstract This qualitative mode of study draws on textual analysis of Fauzia Saeed’s book Taboo from a feminist stylistic perspective. The study highlights the power exertion of standard community on marginalized community. Moreover, it focuses on the identity of women as oppressor on the same gender as well as oppressed by male gender in patriarchal society. The study also highlights the marginalization of men in brothel communities of Lahore, Pakistan. The search mainly examines the text through the lens of feminist stylistic presented by Sara Mills Model (1995). The checklist provided by Mills (1995) has been used for textual analysis at three levels, which include word level, phrase/sentence level and discourse level. The researcher studies lexical categories, grammatical features and discourse markers used by Dr. Fauzia Saeed’s in her book Taboo. Textual analysis shows the writer has used the vernaculars in order to highlight the depth of social practices in two different communities co-existing in closed vicinity. The writer also explains that how the same lexical item carries different meaning in two different settings and how the context modifies the meaning of words. The author draws a comparison of oppressor and oppressed genders in standard community and non-standard community. The writer uses figurative language, cohesive devices, contextual markers, semantic derogation and naming and andro-centricism description to describe the implied meaning of the text in order to unveil the discriminatory linguistic and social practices towards genders for readers. The findings of the research unleash the linguistic choices of dominant and oppressed genders in two different communities. The linguistic choices of genders show the power dynamics and have a crucial role in marginalization of gender, identity crisis, propagation of gender identities and ideologies in the two communities. Keywords: Power dynamics, Taboo, marginalization, double marginalization, minorities

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Publication Date 2019-09-24

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