Patriarchy Rhetoric Critic in Sherko Bekas’s Verse Novel (Lantern Cemetery)

Abstract

This study deals with the patriarchy rhetoric critic in Sherko Bekas’s verse novel “Lantern Cemetery”, is an academic effort to read the Kurdish poetry text outside the framework of a mainstream sheer aesthetic. In terms of theory, it relied on the principles of cultural criticism which is a modern method and aims to unveil the hidden patterns which is deep-seated in language and culture that serve to maintain authority. In this context, patriarchy is not seen as an individual attitude, but interpreted as a dominant social, gender and language rhetoric which could be summarized into two points: First, identifying and disclosing those hidden cultural paradigms in the society which have become pretexts to marginalize and persecuting the females which have mirrored in Sherko Bekas’s texts. Second, revealing how the poetic text rebels against the hegemony of patriarchy and proving that how the poet uses the language to deconstruct the artificial sacredness formed by the patriarchal system. Finally, the study reaches the conclusion that the text of (Lantern Cemetery) is not just a lamenting elegy for women victims, but a direct confrontation to the dominant authority’s rhetoric, and a deep critic to the mentality that produced this oppression.