Ostracism in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This study explores how women are ostracized in a patriarchal society in Kamila Shamsie’s novel Kartography (2002) from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis using Fairclough’s Three Dimensional Model (1995) for data collection. Shamsie seeks to speak for the marginalized and the oppressed section and echoes how women are subject to multiple oppressions by the intersection of oppressive forces of gender discrimination. This qualitative study uses textual analysis that focuses on the syntactic and semantic values of the text. The study explores that women ostracized within the implicit family culture in Pakistan. The lexemes and the structure of the sentences reveal the hidden ideologies regarding women coercion and repression. The study will be a contribution to the bulk of knowledge