Pioneers of women's fiction writing in Persian and Arabic literature )with a focus on female storytellers in the nineteenth century(

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of letters and humanities, University of Neyshabur, Neyshabur, Iran.

2 .Associate Professor, Department of Persain Languge and literature, Faculty of letters and humanities, University of Neyshabur, Neyshabur, Iran

Abstract

Women writers in Iran and Arab countries have always been able to express their stance in writing their fictional works and were welcomed by the public in this respect. Story writers emphasized that women show the reader a special meaning of the female experience that male literature is not able to reveal. Accordingly, they tried to write works directly related to the experiences of women. The current study was conducted in the fields of formation and development of women's writing in the fictional literature of two countries based on the American School of Comparative Literature and the descriptive-analytical method. The results of the research indicate that the first period of women fiction writing in Persian and Arabic literature expresses the feelings of oppression, suffering, and deprivation. The second stage, is the period of restoration of women's identity and raises the issue of the right to choose, women's freedom, and discrimination of women's identity. Getting out of negativity and promoting the acceptance level of the women's role from the home environment to different levels of society, including political, economic, social, and cultural features, and choosing the hero among women, are among the most important features of women’s fictional works in the third period of women’s writing in Persian and Arabic literature. The women writers' efforts to show a female narrative and represent women's identity are presented in different ways at different levels of the text such as the use of words, characterization, and the choice of the female hero and narrator. 

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Article Title [العربیة]

رائدات فی الکتابة الروائیة النسائیة فی الأدبین الفارسی والعربی (مع الترکیز على رواة القصص من النساء فی القرن التاسع عشر)

Abstract [العربیة]

تمکنت الکاتبات فی إیران والدول العربیة من التعبیر عن موقفهن فی کتابة أعمالهن القصصیة والترحیب من قبل الجمهور. أکدت کاتبات القصة على أن النساء یظهرن للقارئ معنى خاصًا لتجربة الإناث لا یستطیع الأدب الذکوری وصفه والتعبیر عنه. لذلک، حاولن کتابة أعمال مرتبطة مباشرة بتجارب النساء. فی البحث الحالی، تمت الدراسة فی مجالات تکوین وتطور تیار الکتابة النسائیة فی الأدب القصصی لهاتین الأرضین بناءً على مدرسة الأدب المقارن الأمریکیة و المنهج التوصیفی ـ التحلیلی. وتشیر نتائج البحث إلى أن الفترة الأولى للکتابة القصصیة النسائیة فی الأدبین الفارسی والعربی تعبر عن ظلم ومعاناة وحرمان المرأة. المرحلة الثانیة هی فترة استعادة هویة المرأة وتطرح قضیة الحق فی الاختیار وحریة المرأة وتمییز الهویة النسائیة. إنّ حریة المرأة، والخروج من السلبیة، وتعزیز قبول دور المرأة من بیئة البیت إلى مستویات مختلفة من المجتمع، بما فی ذلک السیاسیة والاقتصادیة والاجتماعیة والثقافیة، واختیار البطل من بین النساء، تعتبر من أهم سمات الأعمال القصصیة النسائیة فی الفترة الثالثة من کتابة المرأة فی الأدبین الفارسی والعربی. یتم عرض جهود الکاتبات لإظهار سرد أنثوی وتمثیل هویة المرأة بطرق مختلفة على مستویات مختلفة من النص، مثل استخدام الکلمات والتوصیف واختیار البطل والراوی الأنثى.

Keywords [العربیة]

  • الأدب القصصی
  • الجنس
  • النساء الراویات الفارسیة والعربیة
  • السرد النسائی

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Research in Comparative Literature
Volume 13, Issue 3 - Serial Number 51
September 2023
Pages 127-152

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