Art
Alavitalab Mitra
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Female characters in the plays of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th AH, have different manifestations and are presented in a paradoxical way. The social and political changes in this period emphasize the discourse of improving the position of women and have fueled fear and anxiety about ...
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Female characters in the plays of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th AH, have different manifestations and are presented in a paradoxical way. The social and political changes in this period emphasize the discourse of improving the position of women and have fueled fear and anxiety about the presence of women equally. In this research, we focus on the roles of women in some of the plays of this era by critical discourse analysis. This plays have been described, interpreted and explained by the descriptive and analytical method suggested by Norman Fairclough. First of all, at the level of description, we have discussed the function of female characters in the plots of plays. At the level of interpretation, looking at the social events related to women in this period, the relationship between women's activism in the play and their level and role in the society is examined, and finally, in the third stage, the reason for the gap between the change of social paradigms and the role Women are explained in plays. By the analysis of the plays in the discourse context of the era, it was concluded that although in this era, the key role of women in the society and their promotion to the level of the speaking subject is always emphasized as one of the manifestations of progress, but still the dominance of the patriarchal discourse and The fear of killing women has so powerfully cast a shadow on the dramas of this hundred-year era that the role of women is either associated with concepts such as cunning, deception and conspiracy, or the female characters remain as objects of men's opinion games and seduction
Art
Zahra Taheri
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This article focuses on the notion of “desire” in Yerma (1934), by Federico Garcia Lorca, the famous Spanish writer and dramatist. Yerma is one of the dramas in Lorca’s ‘rural trilogy’. Adopting the perspective of left thinkers and using Gilles Deluze and Fleix Guattari’s ...
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This article focuses on the notion of “desire” in Yerma (1934), by Federico Garcia Lorca, the famous Spanish writer and dramatist. Yerma is one of the dramas in Lorca’s ‘rural trilogy’. Adopting the perspective of left thinkers and using Gilles Deluze and Fleix Guattari’s views on psychoanalysis, the writer discusses how the notion of “desire” through a deleuzian perspective is not associated with loss but power and can, thus, end up in change and “becoming.” To elaborate this process, the study has deployed a descriptive-analytic method to the text, and it has focused on the notions of ‘paranoid desire,’ ‘schizoid desire’ and ‘becoming woman.’ It is argued that Yerma, as a prototype of minority figures, is subjected to those strategies of ‘otherization’ which she cannot help tolerating due to an internalization of the family and social discourses of norms and stereotypes, which is still true to the lives of many women even these days. Yerma finds no way out of such stagnant life scripts but through a sudden outrageous rebellion against the system (and its representative—Juan). Such rebellion questions the dominant paranoid control exerted by every hierarchical system in society. These challenges pursue a type of “deterritorialization” of such systems and their meta-narratives by opening new horizons which introduce new types of relationships and orders which are far different from the mainstream culture and, thus, chaalenging, unsettling, and dangerous. In fact, they are new voices which can be heard.
Art
Shiva Massoudi; Nafiseh Saadat
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“Living doll” is a term for young girls who transform themselves into toy dolls like Barbie with surgery and heavy makeup, and display their gestures and behaviors on social media by posting photos or videos. In this article, by producing a readout of carnival and carnivalesque from the perspective ...
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“Living doll” is a term for young girls who transform themselves into toy dolls like Barbie with surgery and heavy makeup, and display their gestures and behaviors on social media by posting photos or videos. In this article, by producing a readout of carnival and carnivalesque from the perspective of Bakhtin, death, mask, madness (manifested in three types of rogue, clown, fool) and play are introduced and identified as its four main themes. The background of the research shows that the embodiment of these themes in literary works or social and political phenomena can lead to the development of carnivalesque. In search of carnival elements in Living doll term, we come to the virtual space as the carnival square. Cyber display has two parts, one is its representation, which from Goffman's point of view has an executive aspect, and the second is the place of its performance in cyberspace and specifically social networks; Where it allows each person to create different, artificial and ideal identities. The living doll, which has a history in literary sources as well as in girls' desire to imitate dolls, puppets or cartoon characters, is the choice of a strange puppet-like identity in cyberspace. living dolls embody the four themes of carnival with concepts of inanimate being and mortality, face and body masks, stupidity, rebellion, deception and wondering, and acting as puppets. And in this way, they turn their cyberspace show into a carnival from Bakhtin's point of view.
