The effect of colonialism on Afghan women in Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi's novels
Subject Areas : criticismsara abdoli 1 , aliyeh youseffam 2 , shervin khamse 3
1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Identity, colonialism, migration, Afghan women, Mohammadi,
Abstract :
Criticism of post-colonialism is a discourse consisting of ideas of people such as Fanon, Edward Said, etc., which can be placed under the context of fields such as art, literature and political science .In the field of literature, the post-colonial approach studies the literature of the colonial country and the works of immigrant writers of that country. This article examines the fictional works of "Mohammed Hossein Mohammadi", an Afghan writer, using a descriptive-analytical research method. In his works, he depicts the way and dominance of colonialism over culture and the extent of resistance of this culture against domination. The type of activism of this resistance is different between male and female gender. Although women are placed in a sexually inferior position, new identity structures based on the dialectic ruling the society cause them to be read differently than what considers them as objects in the patriarchal world. Studying literature with a post-colonial perspective is listening to the forgotten voices of people who have been under colonialism for years. This literature portrays the process through which the people of the colony have either associated themselves with the existing conditions and somehow experienced a melting phenomenon or have faced this attack.
