An Analysis of the Novels Parande Man (My Bird) and  Mahiha dar Shab Mikhaband (Fish Sleep at Night) Taking into Consideration Woman Writinig Characteristic Componants

Hasanzadeh Dastgerdi, Afsaneh; Mousavi Rad, Mostafa

doi:10.22059/jlcr.2014.52685

An Analysis of the Novels Parande Man (My Bird) and Mahiha dar Shab Mikhaband (Fish Sleep at Night) Taking into Consideration Woman Writinig Characteristic Componants

Document Type : scientific-research

Authors

Afsaneh Hasanzadeh Dastgerdi ¹

Mostafa Mousavi Rad ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Persian Language and literature, Narjes University of Rafsanjan

² Assistant Professor of Persian Language and literature, University of Tehran

10.22059/jlcr.2014.52685

Abstract

Despite the diversity among Iranian women writers of literary texts in the years after the islamic revolution, especially since the 1990s on, a clear sensitivity to the issues of women and sexual relations is obviously traceable. Most of these authors have propounded their similar thoughts about Iranian woman using the same techniques and formalistic components. Parande-ye-man (My Bird by Fariba Vafi) and Mahiha dar shab mikhaban (The Fishes sleep at night by Soudabeh Ashrafi) are outstanding novels created through 2000s that their study can help us to get better understanding about literary evolution occurred in that decade and Iranian fiction writing. The present study analyzes the two above mentioned novels with respect to formalistic components considering the issue of their “Feminine Writing”. Consensus of scholars and literary critics was the major criteria in selecting these novels among other works created by women through 2000s. This study shows that both Iranian female writers in above cases have used similar measures such as: selection of female narrators, narrating the stories in similar locations such as homes, kitchens and other feminine circles, men’s negative characterization of women, putting emphasis on the theme of patriarchal domination of the society, emotional separation between men and women, women’s solitude, and unfaithfulness of men.

Keywords

Iranian novel

Female Writing

Text Analysis

Parande-ye-man

and Mahiha dar shab mikhaband