Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

Applying the Topography of the First-Person Singular Role to Identify Subtypes of Technical We-Narratives

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Naser Gholi Sarli 1
Nastaran Shahbazi 2
1 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language & Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2 Ph.D in Persian Language & Literature, Department of Persian Language & Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/jlc.2025.479138.1675
Abstract
In a group of collective narratives whose narrative agent is a collective narrator, the author shows the nature of the narrator in a singular form in order to make the point of view realistic in parts of the story. The story has a technical function, so we can call this category “Technical We Narration”. technical We Narratives consist of at least two narrative levels, what forms this leveling happens in the process of changing the perspective and accordingly the narrative perspective. The common denominator of these narratives is, in most cases, the first narrator is a person who assumes the role of narrating the collective narrative. The upcoming research studies the influence of this first person in Technical We Narratives with an inferential approach. To achieve this goal, examples of contemporary Persian fiction have been selected and analyzed. The result shows that the "I" narrator can be aware of the level of awareness, importance of the role in terms and communication with other members of the group.
Keywords
We Narrative
Point of view
Narrative perspective
Collective narrative
Contemporary Persian story
Subjects
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Journal of Literary Criticism
Volume 10, Issue 19
April 2026
Pages 261-229

  • Receive Date 17 September 2024
  • Revise Date 21 January 2025
  • Accept Date 25 January 2025