Performed Femininity: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedayat’s “The Doll Behind the Curtain” and Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”

Amirghaffari, Asma; Boudaghzadeh, Samaneh

doi:10.22091/slic.2026.14325.1014

Performed Femininity: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedayat’s “The Doll Behind the Curtain” and Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ MA student, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Language and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

² BA graduate, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

10.22091/slic.2026.14325.1014

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Literature Culture

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