This study explores how women are ostracized in a patriarchal society in Kamila Shamsies novel Kartography (2002) from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis using Faircloughs Three Dimensional Model (1995) for data collection. Shamsie seeks to speak for the marginalized and the oppressed section and echoes how women are subject to multiple oppressions by the intersection of oppressive forces of gender discrimination. This qualitative study uses textual analysis that focuses on the syntactic and semantic values of the text. The study explores that women ostracized within the implicit family culture in Pakistan. The lexemes and the structure of the sentences reveal the hidde
Key words: Kartography, Critical Discourse Analysis, ostracism, dominance and social inequalities
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