Feminist Critique in Eight Short Persian Stories

Subject Areas : مطالعات نقد ادبی

Pantea Nabian ¹ (Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Science and Research Branch)

Received: 2022-05-07 Accepted : 2022-07-21 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: Women, feminist criticism, Feminism, Misogynist,

Abstract :

The author analyzed eight short Persian stories written by men writers on the basis of Josephine Donovan's Feminist theory to show the position and role of the women in these stories. Four stories were chosen among the works of Sadiq Hedayat and the other four stories were selected among the works of Al-ahmad. The author wants to illustrate that men as writers show women in cliche roles as objects, tools and dependent creatures not as a complete, independent women, in the world of males also investigates that there was not any humanitarian or supportive stance to display women, In the patriarchal world of these writers. Conclusions showed that both of the writers as influential Iranian writers in their cultural-social and traditional structures of their stories gave stereotypical roles to women and passive human-beings, playing secondary roles to satisfy patriarchal needs and requirements, and finally they passively give up in men’s world. Both of the theory and practice of the author were fully satisfied.

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