Document Type : scientific-research
Authors
1 Professor in Persian Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan
2 Ph.D. Graduate in Persian Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan
Abstract
Behnāz Alipour Gaskari has purposefully and deliberately used post-modern techniques in the title, the content and the style of narrative in her short story collection called “Bemānd…”. Recursive structures, short junctions, setting and disrupting frameworks, confusion and lack of coherence in text, contradiction and uncertainty are all the post-modernist techniques have been used in the stories; however the use of recursive structure is more noticeable. Creating several different narrative levels or fictional world in addition to the ontological content of the stories, recursive structure shows the artificiality of them highlighting the fictional framework. The author expresses her own opinion about women issues using the above mentioned worlds. She had worked totally different in two stories. Using the sleep-expressing technique, she creates, in the story of “Bādhāie Ke az Hindukush Mivazand” (The winds blow from the Hindu Kush), an imagery world besides the semi-real world; and shows herself in the story of “Zany Az Jense Mes”(A woman of Copper) and shows her authority and the artificiality of the story pointing directly to the writing. Using the post-modern techniques by the author to express the problems of women in modern society shows that post-modernism is a narrative tool rather than a method or school of thought.
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