Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 17، number In Volume 10، Junuary 2025 ، issue Number 104

Urban manifestations in contemporary Persian fiction

Maryam Akhbari , Arash Moshfeghi (Author in Charge), Hossein Dadashi

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The city is one of the important elements of the story, which sometimes becomes as important as the characters, but even more so. Characters come and go, but the city is a stable and definite element that can be tied to anything suspended between heaven and earth. Reporting the daily life of people in the city needs tools that can reflect these changes. One of these tools is fiction. In addition to giving identity and credibility to cities, literature is also a means of their recognition. In the past decades, Persian fiction literature has focused on villages more than cities; But in the last decade or two, cities have become more important in stories. Currently, many contemporary authors and writers are known as urban poets and writers, and their fame is due to the creation of literary situations in the context of today"s cities. The main purpose of this article is to examine urban representations in some of the most important contemporary Persian stories.

METHODOLOGY: In this research, which was carried out using a descriptive-analytical method, urban manifestations, based on Cohen"s classification, were examined in two parts: artificial space and social space in stories of fourteen contemporary writers.

FINDINGS: In the first group, the architecture of urban houses, offices, organizations, and urban and public institutions, including mosques and religious places, hospitals, squares, universities, restaurants, printing houses, military centers, and references to urban neighborhoods were examined and evidence was presented. In the second group, the topics of the urban family, marriage in the city, the political situation of the city, westernization, and war were discussed.

CONCLUSION: In every historical period, the city has been manifested in a special way in contemporary Persian stories. This happened in a different way during the Pahlavi period and the stories written during this period mostly deal with issues such as the sudden entry of modernity into the cities and especially the metropolises, including the capital of Iran and Tehran, and depict the issue of modernity in that era. During the time of Pahlavi II, the issue of modernity and the country"s political issues are discussed again. Then, the stories that were written in the city"s restless environment during the 1957 revolution sometimes report detailed descriptions of the city during the revolution.

Keyword
city , fiction , community , urban literature

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