چکیده مقاله
This research is an attempt to show how Franz Kafka’s magnum opus “Metamorphosis” can be read as a bold, subversive and counter discursive narrative to de essentialize essentialist conceptions vis à vis traditionally and discursively conceived essential gender identities This paper relies upon Judith Butler’s postmodern performative conception of gender so as to better tease out the ways in which Kafka’s narrative can be read counter intuitively, not as a conservative work in its investigation and portrayal of gender issues, but as a radically metamorphosing, de essentializing and deconstructive literary artefact impugning traditional identity and gender related binaries Multivalency of Kafkaesque language and inter metamorphosed genders are conducive to a more de essentialized and boundary defying discourse that invite Kafka’s readers, across geographical and ideological boundaries, to rethink and recast their previously held essentialist conceptions regarding identities in general and genders in particular
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نویسندگان
Amirhossein Nemati Ziarati
Ph D Student of English Language and Literature, University of Isfahan
Mahdi Javidshad
Ph D in English Language and Literature, Arak University
شیوه ارجاع
Nemati Ziarati, Amirhossein and Javidshad, Mahdi,1400,De-Essentialized/De-Essentializing Genders in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”: A Deconstructive Approach,10th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and History
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