Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Yasuj University
2 Hormozgan University
Abstract
Dallal Rahmani* H. Ghorbani**
Hormozgan University Yasouj University
Abstract
Ahamad Akbarpour's novel, I'm not My Dad's Servant, is a significant work of Iranian children and young adult literature though it has not gained critics' favor. In this paper, we analyze this novel using Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic violence. Symbolic violence is fundamentally the imposition of cultural and social domination upon social agents in order to confirm that individual's placement in a social hierarchy. In this novel, the process of symbolic violence is described as a kind of transformation from childhood to adulthood. The novel demonstrates the failure of “School” in implementation of this transformation. We underline a reading of the novel that contains a critical view about the institution of education.
* PH.D. Student in sociology , mhrd2010@yahoo.com
**MA Student in Children's and Young Adult Literature, hossein-ghorbani@hotmail.com
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