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Elham Sobati

Elham Sobati

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Literature and Humanities
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Research

Title
Distortion of Black Identity in Una Marson's Poems: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Distortion, Critical Discourse Analysis, Identity, Una Marson, Poem
Year
2024
Journal ENCONTROS BIBLI-REVISTA ELETRONICA DE BIBLIOTECONOMIA E CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO
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Researchers Elham Sobati ، Anfal Kadhum Yousif ، Tahereh Afshar

Abstract

The narratives and poems in Marson's works provide a clear insight into the development of women's identity in Jamaican literature. This involves analyzing the societal expectations placed on women and the exclusion they face in certain spaces. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, to investigate the Distortion of Black Identity in Una Marson's Poems using a critical discourse analysis model. To this end, poems from her last two book collections namely "The Moth and the Star", 1937 and "Towards the Stars", 1945, were taken as the material for the study. The design of the study was qualitative and to examine the data, the model proposed by Fairclough (1989, 1992) was utilized. the researchers analyzed these selected poems from the poet's critical views of facing issues such as race, color, discrimination, and prevailing images of black womanhood in Jamaica and other parts of the world using the Fiarcilough CDA analysis model. These results prove that careful and attentive application of methodology can bring new meanings to light and uncover hidden ideologies. Throughout the analysis, the results show that there have been frequency differences among all figures of speech, the metaphor is the most frequently occurring figure of speech. Second; repetition then rhetoric questions, then symbol, and then smile, hyperbole, personification, and repetition have a rather similar range of occurrences. The collective use of figures of speech plays a crucial part in establishing the underlying meaning and conveying the ideology of the poem.