Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Roya Hosseini ¹
• Abulqasim Amirahmadi ²
• Ali Eshqi Sardehi ³

¹ Department of Persian Language and Literature, Sabzevar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sabzevar, Iran

² Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Sabzevar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sabzevar, Iran

³ Department of Persian language and literature,, Sabzevar Branch, Islamic Azad University

Abstract

Women agency has investigated in the world literature based on critical, maternal, educational, equality and freedom perspectives but some of these studies in social and political dimensions has been affected by an androgenic dominance, or duffers from methodological and epistemological deficiencies and fail to fulfill its goals. Islamic revolution, due to its roots in Islamic ontology and epistemology has provided a realist understanding of woman agency which are manifest in different dimensions of resistance literature. Thus, the current research is an innovative attempt to adopt the functional-systemic theory of Halliday to analyze the employment of ideational meta-functions in the novels of “Daa” as the representative of post-revolutionary resistance literature and “Savushun” as the representative of pre-revolution social literature. It was found that both writings have employed the ideational meta-functions to reflect woman agency in social and political and real-life spheres but the frequency and agentive nature of these meta-functions in the resistance novel of “Daa” is more prominent.

Keywords

• Islamic Revolution
• Functional Linguistic
• Feminism
• Ideational Meta-Functions
• Mental Process