Volume 13, Issue 49 (2020)                   LCQ 2020, 13(49): 137-168 | Back to browse issues page

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saeedi M. The Analysis of the Iranian Women’s Fiction Writing in Diaspora. LCQ 2020; 13 (49) :137-168
URL: http://lcq.modares.ac.ir/article-29-38482-en.html
IHSS , mehdesaedi@yahoo.com
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In the last few decades, the events and developments in both Iranian society and the world have led to the formation of women’s fiction writing in diaspora. In these stories, the protagonists are mostly women and, in contrary to traditional structures, women are not defined in relation to men, rather, following a deconstructive method, women’s views are considered as core views and the stories are narrated through their viewpoints to the world and also to the men. The current paper has indicated that these writers had maintained a relation between introducing women’s world to their readers and preserving the aesthetics in their stories. Regarding themes, some have incorporated feminine narratives to represent political issues, while others focused on identity issues and portrayed women as knowing subjects. Therefore, first person narrator is mostly adopted in these stories, enabling them to focus on the protagonist’s inner thoughts. In other words, it could be said that the writer is embodied in the first person narrator, the protagonist. Other themes include stories about sexual matters and narratives on everyday lives. The last category is mostly considered as pop literature and, though lacking a strong narrative structure, has attracted a significant readership
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Article Type: Analytic Review | Subject: Contemporary Contemporary Criticism
Received: 2019/11/26 | Accepted: 2020/02/24 | Published: 2021/02/28

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