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The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love

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The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love

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This article examines Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love through the lens of cultural and feminist critique, interrogating the hegemonic patterns of implicit patriarchy operating within the contemporary world novel. The study analyses the novel's dual narrative structure—the story of Ella Rubinstein, a modern American housewife, interwoven with the mystical journey of the thirteenth-century figure Shams of Tabriz—against the backdrop of gender dynamics, the discourse of liberation, and the cultural politics of silence. Drawing on Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony, Simone de Beauvoir's concept of the Other, and the feminist literary criticism of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, this paper argues that beneath the novel's ostensible project of making female subjectivity visible lies an implicit discourse that naturalizes and reproduces patriarchal norms across both modern and historical narrative planes. The article demonstrates that the novel's discourse of love, spirituality, and individual transformation consistently privileges male authority and spiritual guidance, while framing female emancipation as contingent upon male approval or romantic attachment—a tension that ultimately subverts Shafak's professed feminist credentials. In doing so, this study interrogates the limitations of market-driven literary globalisation in genuinely amplifying women's voices in world literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

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  6. Casanova, P. (2004). The world republic of letters (M. B. DeBevoise, Trans.). Harvard University Press.
  7. Gilbert, S. M., & Gubar, S. (1979). The madwoman in the attic: The woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination. Yale University Press.
  8. Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the prison notebooks (Q. Hoare & G. N. Smith, Eds. & Trans.). Lawrence and Wishart.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Sömürge Dönemi Sonrası Edebiyatı, Çok Kültürlü ve Kültürlerarası Çalışmalar, Kültürel çalışmalar (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

22 Haziran 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

31 Mart 2026

Kabul Tarihi

4 Mayıs 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Halimi, H. (2026). The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love. Nova Dil Dergisi, 3(1), 10-18. https://izlik.org/JA27LT95WT
AMA
1.Halimi H. The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love. Nova Dil Dergisi. 2026;3(1):10-18. https://izlik.org/JA27LT95WT
Chicago
Halimi, Housseyn. 2026. “The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love”. Nova Dil Dergisi 3 (1): 10-18. https://izlik.org/JA27LT95WT.
EndNote
Halimi H (01 Haziran 2026) The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love. Nova Dil Dergisi 3 1 10–18.
IEEE
[1]H. Halimi, “The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love”, Nova Dil Dergisi, c. 3, sy 1, ss. 10–18, Haz. 2026, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA27LT95WT
ISNAD
Halimi, Housseyn. “The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love”. Nova Dil Dergisi 3/1 (01 Haziran 2026): 10-18. https://izlik.org/JA27LT95WT.
JAMA
1.Halimi H. The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love. Nova Dil Dergisi. 2026;3:10–18.
MLA
Halimi, Housseyn. “The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love”. Nova Dil Dergisi, c. 3, sy 1, Haziran 2026, ss. 10-18, https://izlik.org/JA27LT95WT.
Vancouver
1.Housseyn Halimi. The Hegemony of the Implicit Patriarchal Pattern in the Contemporary World Novel: A Cultural Critique of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love. Nova Dil Dergisi [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2026;3(1):10-8. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA27LT95WT

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