A Comparative Study of the Narration of Immigration Theme in Two Postmodern Novels: the Nocturnal Harmony of Wood Orchestra” and “All Special”
Subject Areas : criticism
narges oskouie
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(Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Bonab Branch)
Keywords: comparative literature, Narratology, Immigration Literature, All Special, the Nocturnal Harmony of Wood Orchestra,
Abstract :
Absterac: Narrative immigration literature in Iran is consistently and rapidly expanding due to substantial social issues. It necessitates extensive and multidimensional research in the field of literature and migration. The present study with a comparative study approach searches the two important novels of contemporary migration literature for common components in these works. Both novels express (like the autobiography) the lives of two immigrant writers. The results indicate that the nostalgia of home is left behind and its belongings and multiple threads (identity, culture, communication, emotions, etc.) of the current world of author, alongside factors such as mental distress and constant fear (out of concentrated flows on migration axis), strongly cause emotional distress of the narrator-author in both novels, and this effective issue has made very close together other narrative factors of both novels, like choosing the viewing angle, characterization, temporal and spatial rupture of the narrative, plot and narrative language (symbolic) in both novels. Using the narrative technique of stream of consciousness, mental reflections, time intervals, symbolic language, continuous associations, spatial and temporal confusion by relying on an unreliable narrator whom the audience must detect the events of the story through his unbalanced speech, which are a mixture of dream and reality, and most importantly the main design of the two stories that reflect the realities of the situation of migrating human fleeing from home has greatly increased the intertextual relationships of these two novels. Key words: Immigration Literature, Comparative Literature, Narratology, the Nocturnal Harmony of Wood Orchestra, All Special
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