List of Articles زهرا هاشمی

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  1 - Identity Construction in the Narratives of Black Female Writers: A review Article
  Zahra Hashemi
  10.30495/jntell.2023.1979785.1045
  The term ''identity'' which refers to one's rights, equality and dignity, equal opportunity in work and education and equal pay, emerged in the United States in the mid-twentieth century in the context of immigration, social change, and emancipator movements. This study More

  The term ''identity'' which refers to one's rights, equality and dignity, equal opportunity in work and education and equal pay, emerged in the United States in the mid-twentieth century in the context of immigration, social change, and emancipator movements. This study examines the distinctive ways in which contemporary black female authors have employed speculative fiction to portray diasporic identities in their female protagonists. The novels examined in this study offer new ways of conceptualizing the connection between cultural trauma and society and ultimately by giving voice, choice and identity, have tried to empower their characters to take a stand against male operation and discover a sense of selfhood. The findings indicate an identity pattern and ways of reshaping the identity, voice and healing during and after traumas distinct to the Afrodiasporic community in the female protagonists. Manuscript profile
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  2 - The Impact of Afrofuturism on the Voice and Identity in Contemporary Black Female Narratives
  Zahra Hashemi Hossan Shahabi Mehry Haddad Narafshan
  10.30495/jntell.2023.702874
  Afrofuturism is described as a new genre of speculative fiction which converges speculative and realist modes in order to explore amalgamation between African Diasporas, African American writing, and the modern technologies. Contemporary Black female novelists have util More

  Afrofuturism is described as a new genre of speculative fiction which converges speculative and realist modes in order to explore amalgamation between African Diasporas, African American writing, and the modern technologies. Contemporary Black female novelists have utilized Afrofuturism as an umbrella under which Womanism and Black Feminism fall to address topics such as voice, identity, and race to show the quandary of the African woman and how she has tried to overcome her plights and regain her selfhood. The aim of this study was to compare and analyze the works of contemporary and pioneering African female authors Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor who have portrayed ground-breaking strategies in their protagonists’ attainment of power, voice, survival and embracement of alternative identities through Afrofuturism and ultimately reclaimed the identity and voice of the Black womanhood. This descriptive-review study was designed with a library approach, and the theoretical approach utilized was the Feminist and anti-racist theories of Ytasha L. Womack’s Afrofuturism. Based on the review of the two texts, the results indicated that Afrofuturism as a womanist movement in the African-American contemporary literary scene has been more successful in empowering and giving the African women’s identity than the western-based feminism. Manuscript profile