The Discourse Semiology of Resistance Literature in Hafiz' Ghazals

Hafiz’ discourse efforts to represent his age’s transcendental discourse, and resistance to its semantic system, with the aim of creating otherness and delegitimization , can be explained under the title of resistance discourse model. This article tries to offer a discourse-based study of resistance literature in Hafez’ Ghazals based on the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe and Soltani’s discourse semiology model, by relying on a descriptive-analytical method. With this method, the work is explicated from textual, intertextual, and texture points of view. The main question is what the represented discourse systems in the text are and what relation they have with resistance discourse. It has become clear that there are four different sub-discourses in the text, namely domination, resistance, mysticism, and sufism, and the major existing semantic conflict of the text is the result of the confrontation between the sub-discourse of resistance and hegemonic discourse of the government of the time. The representation of identity specifications of socio-political strata related to the dominant discourse, with the aim of influencing the subjects’ minds, is among the discourse efforts of the author (Hafez) which has in its totality led to the explanation of the power image and its discourse identity.