DECODING HOMOSEXUAL ACCULTURATION IN KAMILA SHAMSIE’S NOVEL BURNT SHADOWS

Abstract

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) examines texts; written or spoken, in order to decode implicit ideologies, power relations and social realities etc. CDA aims to analyze how ideologies developed, formed, maintained and change, and how dominant bloc exercises power linguistically to control social processes.   The present research is significant in decoding ideologies of Burnt Shadows (2009) added in HEC prescribed curriculum of English for BS & M, Phil (2017). Fairclough’s concepts of ideology and power have been taken as conceptual framework. The sample of five passages has been selected through content analysis. Fairclough’s three dimensional model (1989) of description, interpretation and explanation has been taken as methodological framework. Each passage has been analyzed by applying tools of text analysis, process analysis and social analysis. The frequencies of the findings of the research have been calculated and quantitatively data is organized through Microsoft Excel.  Homosexual infusion has been found in Kamila Shamsie’s text Burnt Shadows (2009) through euphemistic linguistic expressions in informal setting; daily routines of Americans. The practices of dominant bloc (Americans) i.e. homosexuality, textualize by dominant bloc (Kamila Shamsie from literary group) in written text (Burnt Shadows 2009) are subject to introduce homosexual culture in Pakistan. The text, being added in HEC curriculum has power to mould perceptions of learners discursively.