A Comparative Study of Sylvia Plath and Forugh Farrokhzad in the Light of Showalterian Feminist Viewpoint

Subject Areas : شعر

Shahrokh Hekmat ¹ ( Faculty member, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch )
Hamideh DolatAbadi ² ( Post Graduate Student, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch )

Received: 2012-09-14 Accepted : 2012-09-14 Published : 2010-11-01

Keywords: فروغ فرخ‌زاد, سیلویا پلات, الاین شوالتر, فمینیسم, جینوکریتیسیزم, مدل بیولوژی, مدل زبان‌شناسی, مدل روا نشناسی و مدل فرهنگی, Farrokhzad, Sylvia Plath, feminism, Gynocriticism, Biological Model, Psychological Model, Cultural Model,

Abstract :

The present study is a cross-cultural survey of American Sylvia Plath’s and Iranian ForughFarrokhzad’s poetry in the light of Showalterian feminist viewpoint. Elaine Showalter believes that analyzing women’s works according to the male-constructed theories would result in mere imitation of male discourse and consequently mere silence of women even in evaluating their own works. Thus, she presents a female framework i.e. Gynocriticism. The present writers are to scrutinize some Plath’s and Farrokghzad’s poems according to the above-mentioned framework and come to the conclusion that both poets reject the pre-established norms of patriarchal literature. As two avant-garde poets, they create a literature of themselves on the basis of their female entity and experience.

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