Investigating the Possibilities of Reading Literary Texts in Light of a Sociolinguistic Perspective: Applications on the Case of Alice Walker’s Selected Short Stories

Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice

مقاله 4، دوره 9، شماره 19، بهمن 2016، صفحه 62-83   

نوع مقاله: Research Paper

نویسندگان

Laleh Masiha^{* 1}؛ Behrang Torabi²

¹English Department of the University of Tabriz

²English Language Department, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran

چکیده

The present research tries to show how race, class, and gender and intersectionality in general, have their decisive impact on the black- American women; and how Alice Walker as a womanist, in her selected short stories, tries to show that black women in the U.S. suffer two-fold acts of oppression and discrimination, i.e. male violence affects all women in social life, irrespective of age or social standing, and at the same time being black has exacerbated the black American women’s situation. In the present study, the mentioned socio-political, socio-cultural and institutionalized intersectionality have been analyzed from the perspective of Alice Walker’s selected short stories. Full analysis have been carried out, from applied linguistic point of view,  in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and “Roselily” while Alice Walker’s other short stories have been consulted for further analysis and discussion. The method used to analyze the data is descriptive research method.

کلیدواژه‌ها

ethnography of communication؛ Alice Walker؛ intersectionality؛ womanism؛ race؛ class؛ gender؛ gender stratification

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