Symbolic violence in Im not My Dad's Servant by Ahmad Akbarpour

Ahamad Akbarpour's novel, Im not My Dad's Servant, is a significant work of Iranian children and young adult literature though it has not gained critic's 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.