“About Time and About Myself”: Thematic and Artistic Diversity of the Women’s Prose in Modern Iranian Literature

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Received: 06/28/2023

Accepted: 03/25/2024

Keywords: Iran; women’s prose; gender issues; social significance; thematic diversity; stylistics

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Ardashnikova A.N., Tamara A. Konyashkina “About Time and About Myself”: Thematic and Artistic Diversity of the Women’s Prose in Modern Iranian Literature. // Lomonosov Oriental Studies Journal. 2024. Vol. 68. N 1,68 p.146-158 https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU0320-8095-13-68-1-11.

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Ardashnikova A.N. (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Tamara A. Konyashkina (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Abstract

The process of studying modern Iranian literature has just begun. This article is the first attempt in Russian and foreign Iranian philology to systematize and analyze a representative block of modern women’s prose works. The scale of this phenomenon, which got a special impetus for development in the republican period, deserves to be in the focus of research, taking into consideration both the vector of development of Iranian literature and its non-literary role as an important social factor. The main features of women’s prose are the expansion of the thematic range and expressive means used by the authors. The stylistic diversity of women’s prose (social realism, fiction, magical realism) is combined with the similarity of its topic — the denial of the woman’s image in its traditional interpretation.

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