Comparison and analysis of focalization in women's novels of the 1970s and 1980s Case study: Jazire Sargardani; Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam

Hayati, Zahra; Safi Pirlojeh, Hoseyn; Mehrafrooz, Nahid

doi:10.22034/jlc.2025.486023.1684

Comparison and analysis of focalization in women's novels of the 1970s and 1980s Case study: Jazire Sargardani; Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

zahra hayati ¹

Hoseyn Safi Pirlojeh ²

Nahid Mehrafrooz ³

¹ Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Institute for Language and Literature, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Faculty of Linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.

³ PhD Graduate in Persian Language and Literature, Institute for Language and Literature, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/jlc.2025.486023.1684

Abstract

Focalization is one of the fundamental structures of the narrative, and by analyzing it, it is possible to revise the form and content of the narrative. The problem of the research is that the similarities and dissimilarities of focalization in novels that have a meaningful connection or discontinuity, what difference does it show in the narrative discourse? Novels written by women in the 1970s and 1980s, and specifically, Jazire Sargardani, written by Simin Daneshvar, and Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam, written by Zoya Pirzad, were chosen as a case study in order to investigate the role of gender identity in the focalization method on the one hand. And on the other hand, to analyze the influence between the centralization and the dissimilarity of the social context of the writing of the novel.The theoretical framework of the research is the focalization of the narrative with emphasis on the types of focalization and aspects of focalization. The research method is descriptive-analytical and the results of the research show that the form of focalization is proportional to the focalized content.

Keywords

Focalization

women's novels

narration

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