Reflection on Two Journeys of Self-awareness; "Vague Distant" by Mohsen Nekoumaneshfard and "Love in Exile" by Baha Taher

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Professor of Persian language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran.

2 Shahid Beheshti University

10.30465/copl.2023.42972.3864

Abstract

The immigrant in the experience of immigration, through confusion and dissociation from its culture and lack of belonging to the host country, seeks to achieve its true identity, various ups and downs. Considering the slippery identity and theoretical patterns of immigration in the votes of Homi Bahabha, The present study, with a comparative approach and relying on descriptive-analytical method, examines the themes related to immigrant identity in the works of "Doordasthaye Mobham" and "love in exile", in stages such as facing the "other", acceptance and refusal, widespread awareness, self-return and finally, dissociation and destiny. In these works, Eastern personalities, in conflict with Western culture and in accordance with internal developments, intertwined with painful global trends and maintaining an ideological position, gain recognition and understanding of a network of global relations and provide a platform based on historical, political and human reality to awaken the forgotten realm of the hero's psyche within the merged boundaries of "self" and to make sense of it. The results of this study show that migration with a break from the insider culture, confrontation with the host land space and understanding the place and time in the process of interaction and confrontation with the discourse space of "the other" as a productive narrative space -"third space"- in the works, It explains the differences in the world; A process that, due to psychological and sociological factors, otherness and profound analysis of alien concepts and alienation gives new importance to the concept of identity.

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