volume Number 11، number In Volume 2، Summer 2018 ، issue Number 40

Oral History، Novel of Iran

Mojtaba Rahmandoost(Author in Charge)

Abstract

Today oral history is one of the most effective and proposed methods for historiography. The method the historicalessanceof whichis obtainedin the process of active interview thenis presentedto the society in a variety of styles and frameworks.

In the recent decade,Iran’s oral history has won a specialposition meanwhile. Two phenomena ofIslamicRevolution of Iran and the Sacred defence ,particularly the second one has created a high potentialin order tocreate artistic works in this field.

The most important specifications of books on Iran’s oral historycan beknown asa valuable (worthwhile) message and their attraction which has caused to break the record of the circulation of the books in Iran in the recent 50 years and for the first timeto bewelcomed by majority of people in a wider range and much more extensive range than before.

If we consider literary devices of classic novels as description, scene, flashback, flashforward, credibility, transition, dialogue, personification, attraction, conflict, suspense, prose, language, symbol, volume, variety of characters and several other specifications, some of the Iran’s oral history books particularly the sacred defence oral history,in addition tocontainingthe theabove mentioned elements,possess a high degree of attractions and own supreme concepts ,as well.Moreover,theycan beconsidered as novels.Although, unlike most of the western novels elements like time ,place ,events and people in them are real.

Keyword
literature , novel , oral history , islamic revelution , sacred defence , attraction

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