Literature
mohsen seifi; samaneh dehghani; ali najafi ivaki
Abstract
Feminist criticism highlights women and their position in society. Alati Ta’ud al Salalim (She who counts the stairs) is a novel written by Huda Hamed, an Omani writer. In her novel, she takes a critical approach to women’s position in society and addresses concepts like social class inequality ...
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Feminist criticism highlights women and their position in society. Alati Ta’ud al Salalim (She who counts the stairs) is a novel written by Huda Hamed, an Omani writer. In her novel, she takes a critical approach to women’s position in society and addresses concepts like social class inequality among women, their cultural challenges, and male dominance. The present study aims to investigate this novel based on four models of gynocriticism proposed by Elaine Showalter, including biological, linguistics, psychoanalytic, and cultural models.. Using prominent linguistic features such as vocabulary and Arabic dialect in reflecting women’s issues and their cultural challenges like women trafficking and physical abuse in her work, Hamed has created an impressive and informative work. The results of the study revealed that she has succeeded in identifying women considering women’s social and cultural issues. Moreover, the high frequency of the components of Showalter’s model in the novel under study confirms its feministic nature. The women’s cultural aspect is so highlighted in its narrative that the fundamental and deep cultural concerns are mentioned in the shadow of the biological and psychoanalytic issues. This research seeks to answer this question: “how does the writer reflect women’s components in her novel?” She has raised issues like delivery, female circumcision, and pregnancy, considering the biological model. In terms of the psychoanalytic model, she has mentioned obsessions, compulsions, sleep, and bipolarity. Using prominent linguistic features such as vocabulary and Arabic dialect in reflecting women’s issues and their cultural challenges like women trafficking and physical abuse in her work, Hamed has created an impressive and informative work. The results of the study revealed that she has succeeded in identifying women considering women’s social and cultural issues. Moreover, the high frequency of the components of Showalter’s model in the novel under study confirms its feministic nature. The women’s cultural aspect is so highlighted in its narrative that the fundamental and deep cultural concerns are mentioned in the shadow of the biological and psychoanalytic issues.
Literature
Sayad Panahi; Hamid Valizadeh; mahin hajizadeh
Abstract
Today, feminist ideas and images are a suitable tool for checking the feminist level of the work, its author and the extent to which it has a feminist structure. In the meantime, the theory of the four dimensions of "Elaine Showalter", the famous American artist of the 20th century, including ...
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Today, feminist ideas and images are a suitable tool for checking the feminist level of the work, its author and the extent to which it has a feminist structure. In the meantime, the theory of the four dimensions of "Elaine Showalter", the famous American artist of the 20th century, including the biological, cultural, psychoanalytical and linguistic approaches, provides this opportunity for women's criticism of the work, and by relying on it, the position of women can be In the literary works of female writers and male writers, recognition. Therefore, the present research has tried to select a novel by by Ahlam Mostaghanami titled an Algerian female writer entitled " Body memory " and a novel by an Iranian female writer Nasim Marashi entitled " prune " for criticism of women's writing and based on the linguistic dimension of Elaine Showalter's four dimensions. to discuss in order to get a clearer picture of the situation of women and their ideas and idealsconclusion. Considering Elaine Showalter's theory, it can be said that both novels are in the stage of feminism. In addition to this tradition, signs of the feminine stage can also be seen in those two; Therefore, due to the fact that the novels in question belong to the feminist and feminine writing tradition, they have significantly the characteristics of female criticism. In terms of the use of linguistic components, for example, the word hey related to colors and its abundant and combined use, as the main component of women, it has occupied the most place in both works. However, regarding the vocabulary related to women, this component has a lower frequency in both works. Detail and short sentences are widely used in both works. This linguistic component has been used explicitly and repeatedly with less interference from culture and the transfigured minds of village characters from the heart of culture.
