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dc.contributor.authorEtemadi O
dc.contributor.authorTabasi E
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-06T02:58:01Z-
dc.date.available2023-11-06T02:58:01Z-
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.identifier.issn0128-7702
dc.identifier.otherukmvital:84503
dc.identifier.urihttps://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/578026-
dc.descriptionSylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is one of her most widely studied poems under psychoanalytic theories. This paper, however, argues that the poet offers a meticulous framework of art revealing the strata of an autocratic government from its heyday to the fall of its leader. In this regard, the paper presumes that the poet had already established antagonism between Daddy as the symbol of arbitrary power and herself as the representative of the suppressed in society. This study applies the concepts of race, space and vision to the poem based on Sallie Westwood’s power grammar in his Power and the Social (2002) and also gives prominence to political cognition introduced by Teun A. van Dijk. Finally, the paper affirms that although there are traces of autobiographical narrative within the poem, Plath’s work surely stands as a great illustration of a totalitarian regime that sanctions programmes of propaganda, surveillance and ethnic purgation.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversiti Putra Malaysia Press
dc.relation.haspartPertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities
dc.relation.urihttp://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/regular_issues.php?jtype=3&journal=JSSH-25-1-3
dc.rightsUniversiti Putra Malaysia
dc.subject“Daddy”
dc.subjectpolitical cognition
dc.subjectPower grammar
dc.subjectSallie Westwood
dc.subjectSylvia Plath
dc.subjectTeun A. van Dijk
dc.title‘Daddy’ and his discussion of authority
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.format.volume25
dc.format.pages119-132
dc.format.issue1
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