A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis Of Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl

Abstract

This paper attempts to conduct a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Kincaid’s Girl (1978). The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of patriarchal hegemony on women’s struggle and their strive against the male-dominated society in Kincaid’s Girl (1978). The current study is qualitative and is based on an interpretivist paradigm. The study utilizes a descriptive research design as it best suits the purpose of the present. The text of Kincaid’s Girl (1978) is used as a primary data source. The data is analyzed through textual analysis and close reading. Lazar’s (2005) model of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis is used as a theoretical framework in the current study. The findings of the study reveal that through the authoritative instructions of a mother to her daughter, the author constructs an ideology that aims to critique the patriarchal restriction on women’s access to society.