03 Stigmatization of a Transgender in Alan Rossi’s The Nature of Man

Abstract

The current study is about the stigmatization of a transgender character depicted in the American short story ‘The Nature of Man’ by Alan Rossi. For the analysis of the stigmatization, critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough (1995) is used as comprehensive research methodology for the research study taking the experiential, relational and expressive values for analysis. The use of Critical Discourse Analysis will enable description, interpretation and explanation of the status of a transgender character in conjunction with the power relations of the society. The finding of the discursive study on the basis of naturalization, technologization and lexicalization of the patriarchal ideology in the discourse and the speech turns in power relations reveal that the transgender younger-brother-now-sister faces criticism not only from her dominant elder brother but also from society in totality as a discourse which becomes a stigma for her.