Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Sahar Gorgi ¹
• hosein imanian ²
• hosein ghorbanpoor ³

¹ Kashan university

² Kashan University

³ kashan

Abstract

It is true that language is the most important human tool for connecting with others, when it comes to showing inner feelings, description, image, paralanguage, body language, silence (=non-verbal communication), which can reveal many unsaid things better and clearer than language. Today, Paralanguage is widely used as one of the most important ways to establish a link between the characters of the novel, so when it comes to feelings or unsaid things that are challenging and discomforting to express, especially for women, its value raises. Mona Shafe'i, one of the writers of our time in Kuwait, in most of her fiction works, reflects the phenomena related to Kuwaiti or Eastern women, and to that extent, she uses non-linguistic tools to reflect the sometimes taboo feelings of women, which has become one of the features of the cognitive style of her writings. Lailat Al-Jonoun (Night of Madness) reflects a segment of the life of a girl who keeps dreaming & who is inconsistent with the Eastern traditions. She is never disappointed and even though she has achieved some of her political and social citizenship rights, she faces a problem in expressing her emotional feelings. The upcoming research, by a descriptive-analytical approach, firstly refers to the difficulties or social, political and religious challenges faced by the women of Lailat Al-Jonoun. Then after that, examines how these women are prohibited from openly expressing their inner feelings, which is one of the most important rights of women's citizenship. Therefore, they have used metalanguage and indirect expression to reflect such a feeling. The women of the narrative, on the one hand, have recognized themselves, and on the other hand, they are still trapped by social barriers. So they struggle with dual states such as anxiety, distress, shame, death on one hand, and with recklessness, happiness and hope, on the other hand.

Keywords

• right of citizenship
• non-verbal communication
• oriental woman
• emotional sense
• Lailat Al-Jonoun
• Mona Shafe'i

Main Subjects

• arabic