Investigating the Reflection of Women Agency in Feminine Writings: A Comparative Study of “Savushun” and “Daa”

Hosseini, Roya; Amirahmadi, Abulqasim; Eshqi Sardehi, Ali

doi:10.22103/jrl.2023.4013

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ PhD Candidate of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Sabzevar Branch, 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

https://doi.org/10.22103/jrl.2023.4013

Abstract

Women's agency has been a key concept and proposition in the history of women's studies and feminism which reveals the sociopolitical status of women in different communities. It is believed that women's agency can serve as a theoretical and analytical framework based on which beliefs and cultural patterns of feminine behavior in societies can be traced. This concept has long been investigated in the world literature based on critical, maternal, educational, equality, and freedom perspectives but some of these studies in social and political dimensions have 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 is manifest in different dimensions of resistance literature but the way this agency is manifested in literary work is not still discussed in the literature.. Taking this problem into account, the present study aimed to employ a systemic functional perspective that serves as a meaning-based theory of language and holds that meaning resides in the systemic patterns of language. The theory maintains that meaning-making is a context-embedded procedure realized in relation to power, socialization, and ideology through the three variables of mode, tenor, and field. Integrating it with the view that, from a socio-linguistic perspective, language and literature are not merely a means of communication but a social action through which attitudes, beliefs, identities, and values are created, the present study was an attempt to decipher ideational meta-functional patterns a corpus randomly selected from Savushun novel and Daa war writing.

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Journal of Resistance Literature

Investigating the Reflection of Women Agency in Feminine Writings: A Comparative Study of “Savushun” and “Daa”

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Volume 15, Issue 28 - Serial Number 28
September 2023
Pages 139-172

Investigating the Reflection of Women Agency in Feminine Writings: A Comparative Study of “Savushun” and “Daa”

References

References

Volume 15, Issue 28 - Serial Number 28September 2023Pages 139-172

Volume 15, Issue 28 - Serial Number 28
September 2023
Pages 139-172