The stigma and the discourse of rejection in Sadegh Hedayat's narratives

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Professor of the Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan

2 (Ph.D of Persian language and literature, Researcher of the Research, Education and Consulting Center of Charmo University, Kurdistan of Iraq)

10.30465/copl.2024.47700.4102

Abstract

In the contemporary world, by passing the universal epistemological-disciplinary system and the aristocratic/class belief of the classical world, it became possible to pay attention to the individual world and the individuality of individuals, and the identity of textual subjects based on their lifestyles and types of personal and social capitals is the subject of representation, Literary narratives were placed. Based on this, the lack of some capitals or a defect in them, which is supposed to be a form of stigma of the subjects, was narrated. Among the contemporary Persian novelists, Sadegh Hedayat is one of the most prominent representatives of the forms of stigma and the discourse of rejection associated with it. In this writing, the stigma of the subjects and the discourse of rejection associated with them have been guided and interpreted in several honest short stories. The result shows that the narrator of Hedayat's stories in the representation of the textual subjects has represented their grief in the form of three physical, personality/psychological and tribal/kinship forms, which are the basis for the formation of some of them such as The noble status of the story of Bonbast and Davood Ggozheposht is seen as a historical or philosophical matter, and in some cases, the basis of the disgrace of subjects such as Abji-khanom, Ismat-al-Sadat, Hassan and Haji Murad is a historical matter; It is the result of unbalanced social relations. What is important is that the representation of the mentioned cases, on the one hand, indicates the desperation of the current human being along with individuality and independence arising from contemporary individualism, on the other hand, it contains aspects of philosophical and social questions/objections that were previously They are not formulated in this way; Although, in some cases, the position of the hidden author of the stories and in continuation of that, the narrator's personal view has also had an effect on the intensification or frequency of the mentioned questions/objections.

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Contemporary Persian Literature
Volume 14, Issue 1
June 2024
Pages 317-353

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