Sarw Rafizadeh,
Volume 7, Issue 28 (12-2014)
Abstract
Abstract The Novel Noghreh, daughter of Kabul River, written by Humaira Qaderi, one of the young and proposed Afghanistan novilist that it is one of the most important novels of contemporary Afghanistan. Here social and political issues have been addressed from the standpoint of women, with a focus on women. The purpose of this article is to study the status and role of Afghan women in contemporary Persian fiction in this country and explore this novel via Critical Discourse Analysis. After the introduction of research methods and theoretical bases of Norman Fairclough, we will analysis the text in three stages. The results of our analysis show that context of novel representations two types of conflict: the Conflict between traditional patriarchal discourses and discourses of femininity (feminist) and the contrast between the intellectual discourse and the discourse of power. The author represents all events of the story about political and social issues in a particular period of history; thus, the method of analysis components of Critical Discourse Analysis, besides to the specific and targeted approach to the representation of the events of the story in author perspectives, introduced reader with some of the developments in this story that its role is played by the women in Afghan society. Author's emphasis is on a particular period of history than any other time also reflects national trends and anti-authoritarian and colonial. Due to the presence of foreign forces and interference potential and secretly warns and in addition to the design of social and emotional issues of women, her apparent bias against traditional patriarchal discourse shows.
Volume 22, Issue 88 (7-2025)
Abstract
This research article examines the literary works of Homaira Qaderi, a prominent contemporary Afghan writer, through the lens of Elaine Showalter's theory. Showalter, after analyzing the literature of African Americans, Native Americans, and Jewish women in America and England, identifies a recurring pattern in the evolution and self-awareness of women. She categorizes her research findings into three stages: feminine, feminist, and female. The objective of this article is to analyze and interpret Hamira Qadiri's fictional stories, as one of Afghanistan's distinguished fiction writers, based on Elaine Showalter's theoretical framework. The research methodology employed is descriptive and analytical, and the research question revolves around how the process of women's transformation and self-awareness in Qadiri's stories can be elucidated using Showalter's triple model. Through exploration and examination of Qadiri's literary works and based on the research findings, it becomes evident that her stories can be comprehensively analyzed and interpreted within this framework, as they traverse the stages of Showalter's triple model. The central characters in her stories engage in vivid imagination, create secluded yet active male-dominated worlds, resort to feminine expression, and establish a platform for students to dance in the mosque tent. With these attributes, her stories and novels align with the stages of feminine, feminist, and female.