Gender Construction, Discrimination, and Identity: Critical Discourse Analysis of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

This study is an effort to create awareness related gender construction, discrimination, and identity in literary discourse structures. Gender usually built enacted through implicit ideological propositions sustain maintain existing social structures by using language. The attempts examine analyze Nadia Hashmi’s Pearl That Broke Its Shell from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis. It analytical exploration investigate ideologically constructed discrimination linguistic discourses selected novel. To extracts novels, researcher has applied Norman Fairclough’s Tri-dimensional approach CDA. analyses text three dimensions, textual analysis, process analysis. novels revealed socially culturally moulded novels. are deeply rooted Afghan power relations order. was explored that language used control, dominate, suppress less powerful weak groups society. patriarchal were implied structures, which product cultural norms.