Document Type : Original Article
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Assistant professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
10.22034/scart.2025.140048.1405
Abstract
Hegemonic masculinity, a term coined by Connell, a theorist in the field of gender studies, refers to those images, fantasies, and ideals about masculinity that are constantly reproduced through the mechanisms and structures of patriarchal society. These images and fantasies are often represented in literary and artistic texts in hidden and overt forms. The present study seeks to critically analyze the discourse of hegemonic masculinity in a Kurdish novel and has chosen The Fence and My Father's Dogs, by Shirzad Hassan, a famous Kurdish novelist, as the case study. This novel, according to Fairclough's critical discourse analysis method, has been analyzed at three levels: text description (revealing the ideological propositions and positions of the text), interpretation (interaction between text and context), and explanation (interaction of structures and discourse). The results of the research show that, at the first level, this work describes the patriarchal positions of traditional society by identifying masculinity with reason, ability, and dominance; then, at the second level, these ideological textual positions are intricately linked to the tribal structure of society, and a link is established between the livelihood of the quasi-feudal society and the meaning of masculinity; finally, at the third level, it becomes clear that the discourse of hegemonic masculinity has itself become a structural matter, and any resistance against it is actually resistance against the entire traditions, customs, and historical heritage of society.
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