LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF ECOFEMINISM: A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

Abstract

 Critical Discourse Analysis is the critical field of discourse analysis which provides an analytical framework for analyzing discourse. Fairclough’s three dimensional model of textual analysis, interpretation and explanation offers a deep rooted and complex approach to uncover the hidden ideologies of the text. These ideologies construct and maintain the suitable narratives in the discourse thus, the analysis questions the authorities about the co-relating damages of both women and nature through patriarchy and narratives of women’s sufferings, environmental destruction and their untouched representations in the discourse. In this regard the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by an afghan writer puts forward the deep-rooted ideologies of patriarchy and its impact on not only women but also the nature linguistically using Fairclough’s three dimensional model of CDA. It highlights the ways in which both the nature and women are impacted by the same ruling power of patriarchy and its claims of justified oppression using the imageries incorporated by Hosseini in the novel. Thus, CDA unveils these hidden truths of the destruction of women and nature with patriarchy as the cause and women oppression and environmental degradation as the effects.