Between the Traditional and the Modern: A CriticaludDiscourse Analysis of Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams ofudTrespass: Tales of A Harem Girlhood (1995)

摘要

The aims of the research are for explaining, informing, telling, describing,uddiscussing and guiding to other people towards what the writer’s opinion anduddominant ideology. The research purposes to examine how the conflicts betweenudthe traditional and the modern values reflected in Fatima Mernissi’s memoir TheudDreams of Trespass: Tales of A Harem Childhood published in 1995 by usingudcritical discourse analysis a theory composed by Teun A. van Dijk.udThe type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The method ofudcollecting data is observation and analyzing the memoir as the object by exploringudthe structural components of it which can be revealed the dominant ideologyudreflected in this memoir.udThe result of the research shows the following conclusions. Firstly, based on theudstructural elements of the memoir, it is evident that the memoir is ideologicallyudcontrolled and shows polarization between in-group and out-group positive selfrepresentation.udSecondly, the dominant ideology of the memoir is liberaludfeminism suggesting the individual freedom represents a personal right that needsudto be fulfilled for the goodness of social life.