Saeidian, S., Hosseini, S. (2013). A Sociological Study of Iranian Women’s Role in Fictional Literature in the Recent Two Decades. International Journal of Women's Research, 2(2), 59-72.
Samira Saeidian; Seyed Rouhollah Hosseini. "A Sociological Study of Iranian Women’s Role in Fictional Literature in the Recent Two Decades". International Journal of Women's Research, 2, 2, 2013, 59-72.
Saeidian, S., Hosseini, S. (2013). 'A Sociological Study of Iranian Women’s Role in Fictional Literature in the Recent Two Decades', International Journal of Women's Research, 2(2), pp. 59-72.
Saeidian, S., Hosseini, S. A Sociological Study of Iranian Women’s Role in Fictional Literature in the Recent Two Decades. International Journal of Women's Research, 2013; 2(2): 59-72.
A Sociological Study of Iranian Women’s Role in Fictional Literature in the Recent Two Decades
2Assistant Professor, French Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran
Abstract
Fictional literature has experiencedan increasing and stunning growth of women writers in the past two decades. In terms of quality and quantity, the increase was to the extent that nowadays women’s names are mentioned sometimes even more than men’s amongthe distinguished writers ofcontemporary Iranian literature. On the other hand, these authors have often chosen the novel as their main literary form. From the sociological view of novel and of critics such as George Lukacs, the growth of women in fiction writingsmake sense in the context of social and cultural developments of contemporary Iran,finding ways to pass the society toward modernity. In fact in this paper we assume that this unprecedented growth is due to the general conditions dominant over the intellectual and social environment of Iran and the transition of the society from traditional to amodern one; and amongother important factors regarding modernity, in this paper individuality is considered as the main element whose formation and evolutionthrough the history of modernity in Iran, has eventually led to a phenomenon we face today, i.e. the dramatic growth of female writers. In other words, individuality or female individuation is the factor that has moved its way inspite of various political, cultural and social changes, and brought along other results which led to the stunning emergence of women in writing.
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