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Rezayati Kishehkhaleh M, Jalalehvand Alkami M. Historicism and the Deliverance Myth in Persian Socialist-Realist Novels. LCQ 2014; 7 (27) :29-67
URL: http://lcq.modares.ac.ir/article-29-1419-en.html
1- Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Guilan University
2- Ph.D. Student of Persian Language and Literature, Guilan University
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Marxism is one of the most influential and yet controversial intellectual and philosophical movements in the twentieth century. Some critics have viewed Marx’s theory of history as unscientific and rather religious, mythic, and literary. Following that, we can understand his philosophy of history as a narrative text and therefore analyze it with the tools of literary criticism. In Iran, socialist realism style was introduced in the mid-1320 sand arose to extend the teachings of Marx and socialism. Drawing on the structuralism of Tzvetan Todorov and Marxist historicism, this paper studies the structural similarities of some of the most famous novels of Persian socialist realism, namely, Dokhtar-e Ra’yat,[1] Chashmhayash,[2] and Hamsayeha.[3] According to Todorov’sGrammar of Narrative, all the actions in these Iranian socialist-realist novels and their Marxist narrative of history can be reduced to three fundamental and recurring propositions: (1) establishing of a new authoritarian order or capitalism (equilibrium); (2) the emergence of class consciousness (lack of equilibrium); (3) repression of the opponents in the Persian novels, or realization of a classless society in Marx’s approach (equilibrium).   [1]. The Daughter of the Common  Man [2]. Her Eyes [3]. The Neighbors
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Article Type: Theoretical | Subject: contemporary Persian fiction|mythology|socioliterature|structuralism
Received: 2014/06/11 | Accepted: 2014/09/9 | Published: 2014/10/23

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