Document Type : Research Paper
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1 عضو هیأت التدریس بجامعة إیلام
2 Faculty member of the Institute of Humanities
Abstract
Literary and artistic works have a prominent position in the philosophical system of Michel Foucault, a French philosopher and theorist, and he has benefited greatly from these works in explaining his intellectual project. Discourse is the keyword of Foucault's theory. He sees every discourse as arising from power. Influenced by Nietzsche's thought, he believes that power does not belong only to the elite class but exists in all social layers; also language is the arena for the emergence of power relations and determines the dominant and the dominated subject. Accordingly, the present study has attempted to examine and analyze Foucault's theory of power, the novel "Tashari" by the Iraqi writer Inam Kajehji, and the novel "Forget the Autumn" by the Iranian writer Fahimeh Rahimi, using the American school of comparative literature and a descriptive-analytical approach. The results show that in both novels, Foucault's various power-oriented discourses are used, although in the novel Forget the Autumn, some discourses, such as the discourse of superstition, the discourse of mastery and servanthood, and the discourse of love, are the leading ones. The authors of these two novels are determined to show that although in traditional Iraqi and Iranian societies, in many women, as inferiors, are victims of the power of superiors that exists in all social classes, by resisting them, they have been able to advance from the boundary of emotional and passive women to the edge of logic and activity, and from folk opinions to the realm of political and social activities.
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