Feminist reading of the novel John Shifteh by Romain Rolland and Sushon by Simin Daneshvar

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Semnan University, Faculty of Humanities, Semnan

2 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Semnan University. Faculty of Humanities. Persian literature group. Semnan

Abstract

Feminism is a social movement that began in Europe and America at the end of the 18th century with the aim of dismantling women's gender discrimination And so far, he has completed three different courses And various groups and trends have emerged from it. With the introduction of feminist ideas into the field of literary criticism, in the late 1960s, "feminist criticism" was founded which analyzes literary works with the two approaches of "female effects" and "criticism of the female author". In this article, we have tried to present a report on the influence of literature and literary criticism on the feminism movement And to show that feminist literary criticism, by identifying the basic and common needs of women, such as the equality of their social, political and educational rights with men, preventing the authority of men, preventing gender injustice, correcting the wrong traditions of society, freedom and independence Women and... while presenting a new reading of literary texts, explores human characters represented in literature. After introducing this approach to literary texts, with a descriptive-analytical method, the novel John Shifete by Romain Rolland and the Iranian novel Sovshon by Simin Daneshvar are subjected to feminist criticism. We have come to the conclusion that in these works the necessity of women's independence and freedom and the cultural and social barriers to their employment, the superiority of the male sex over the female, misogyny and breaking the tradition of women, diversity and men's betrayal, physical and psychological violence , economic and legal against women, which is one of the main issues and problems of women in patriarchal societies, is clearly reflected.

Keywords

Contemporary Persian Literature
Volume 14, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
November 2024
Pages 115-145

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics