Foucault's viewpoint of Power Struggle Analysis in the Shahnameh (the Goshtasp Dynasty) and Nibelungen Song

Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts

zahra Ghorbanipour ¹ , farhad tahmasbi ² , Sareh Zirak ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamshahr branch, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2020-02-20 Accepted : 2020-08-02 Published : 2022-12-22

Keywords: Goshtasp dynasty, Discourse, Nibelungen Song, Power struggle, Foucault,

Abstract :

Based on Foucault’s viewpoint, Power dominates all mechanisms of social exchange and it is linked to truth. Power in every society or period produces certain discourses as truth. According to Foucault's holistic plan for power, it is power that monitors, tames, normalizes, and identifies the human.The process of power, including discourse power, Bio power, and disciplinary discourse (Genealogy), monitors the least detailed subject’s behavior. Also, there are discourses in the time and place that create conflict atmosphere and semantic disputes (Archeology). Meanwhile, this study duo to the infrastructures, signifiers, and discursive functions, especially power discourse analyzes and compares the two texts to understand how power discourse and its proportions produce and the role of man. The research method is descriptive and comparative which are indicating that in the story of Goshtasp the dominant discourses are religious-political identities, political identities, and Iranian king identity. On the other hand, in the Nibelungen Song there are religious - political identity, political identities, German king identities and class identity. In conclusion, the religious - political identity discourse with two signifiers (holy and magic), have found a dominance and influence on the others discourse identity. Goshtasp and Kriemhilde are not normalized by power, but they are the powerful and knowledgeable characters, and combine the ideas of other characters with their own. Esfandiari and Siegfried were not normalized by power relation, but they adjust to the prevailing relations later.

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