Discourse Analysis of Power, Subject Position, and Identity in Sherzad Hassan’s The Yard and My Father’s Dogs

Literary discourse analysis refers to the analysis of linguistic and meta-linguistic data of a literary text to reach different concepts and interpretations. This research is based on a descriptive-analytical investigated and analyzed Sherzad Hassan’s The Yard and My Father’s Dogs from the perspective of the dominant discourse. The necessity of conducting this research is that it also shows that the literary text is not only linguistic and aesthetic data, and different interpretations can be obtained through linguistic and meta-linguistic data. In terms of discourse, this story can be classified into three parts: dominant discourse, new discourse, and failure of the new discourse. The discourse of power, by monotonizing language and society and suppressing dialogue and other communication, takes a step towards expanding power and consolidating it as much as possible, which itself has a great impact on the construction of society and homogenous subjects. Finally, since no discourse can fully establish itself, a new discourse emerges in opposition to the prevailing discourse, which is represented by the first character of the story. With the production of a new discourse, one of the requirements of which is a new identity, the subject finds a new identity and gradually the previous discourse goes to the sidelines, but in the end the new discourse does not lead anywhere.