The Role of Women on Popular Novel on the bases of Feminism in famous works of Fahimeh Rahimi, Narin Sameni and Fattane Haj Sayyedjavadi

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Nasrin Fallah ¹
• Aida Rezvani ²

¹ Shahid Bahonar Univercity of Kerman

² s

Abstract

In the Iranian popular novels, women play effective roles as authors and by creating female characters they can reflect women status.  Feminist criticism come in two general kinds, analyzing the role of women through the manifestation of women and creative writers. The first division, or Gynocritics, on the bases of text, women status and roles were studied. The second division, or feministcritique, evaluates creativity and feminine language. This article analyzed the manifestations of women in various authors with outstanding selection of their works such as Fahimeh Rahimi, Narin Sameni and Fattane Haj Sayyedjavadi.  After determining the role of woman in these works, the results were compaired with feminist views and the differences in these works were compared. These finding showed that the role of women in the afore mentioned works with the major difference establish the Iranian views which are often based on knowledge and reflection of known place of women. Finally, no tendency to the Extreme view of feminism was observed.

Keywords

• popular novel
• Feminist criticism
• Women’s manifestations
• Fahimeh Rahimi
• Narin Sameni and Fattane Haj Sayyedjavadi

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