Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 13، number In Volume 3، June 2020 ، issue Number 49

Feminism and its Development in Post-Revolution Literature of Iran

Borahn Razyani , Akbar Salehi (Author in Charge), Syyed Mehdi Sajadi , Alireza mahmmodnia

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Every author utilizes efficient methods to express their viewpoints. Novel is among the literary genres that women have used to represent the tangible facts of their society. Contemporary female writers like Simin Daneshvar have reflected the issues of women in their works. The purpose of this study is to investigate feminism and its development in the Post-Revolution Literature of Iran. Therefore, the quality of knowledge created in the domain of feminist studies from the beginning of the revolution up to the present have been studied with the purpose of shedding lights on the trends and developments in the recent decades.

Methodology: the present research has been done through descriptive-analytical method by using library resources.

Findings: women novelists of Iran have reached a proper status of equal rights as they passed stages of extreme sentimentalism and non-creativity. In 70s and 80s, they have come to a different understanding of their identity and situation in the society. By entering the modern era and confronting issues like identity, they have tried to redefine their role and status in the family and society, so they entered some new concepts in their novels. 70s must be considered as a decade in which the women have found a more consolidated position in the fictional literature and this movement became an independent form of fictional literature different from men’s writing. Therefore, the 80s must be considered as the beginning of the feminine writing.

Conclusion: The most important finding of this research is that, from a literary point of view, the post revolution era in Iran is the era of the consolidation of the status of women in novel writing. Women writers have written a larger number of works and they have added to the richness and quality of literature by trying different forms and themes.

Keyword
Feminism , evolution , literature , islamic revolution , simin daneshwar

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