American Comparative Literature Association ACLA , 2016-03-17

Title : ( Da: The Honor of Popularity and Authenticity )

Authors: Azra Ghandeharion , MARYAMOSSADAT MOOSAVI TAKIEH , Mahmood Reza Ghorban Sabbagh ,

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Abstract

Da: The Honor of Popularity and Authenticity The recent burgeoning wealth of feminine narratives of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) revitalizes the new gender roles that were once defined for the Iranian women. These war stories, endowed with the feminine individual and social self-consciousness, project unconventional images of the female self. Their oral or written history of sacrifice reveals the ideology of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and Shiism. On this account, the present paper traces this image in one memoir-novel written by an Iranian woman, Azam Hosseini’s Da (2008), recounting her female narrator’s story of war. Categorized under the Sacred Defense genre in Persian literature, the narrative simultaneously manifests contradictory combinations of both reinforcing and subverting discourse. The study proceeds to critically demonstrate the memoir’s impression in terms of popularity utilizing Knoppers, Loudermilk, Gelder, Thoma and Mandal’s criteria. Then, it provides the space to answer this fundamental question: how far the book’s popularity is rooted in propaganda machine and/ or literary merit in terms of authenticity of the narration? Considering the possibilities for canonization, be it for its unconventional narrator or seemingly reinforcing discourse, the study also aims at predicting if this bestseller can enter the mainstream Persian literary canon.

Keywords

, Keywords: Feminine narratives; The Sacred Defense genre; Da; Memoir, novel; Discourse
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@inproceedings{paperid:1060746,
author = {Ghandeharion, Azra and MOOSAVI TAKIEH, MARYAMOSSADAT and Ghorban Sabbagh, Mahmood Reza},
title = {Da: The Honor of Popularity and Authenticity},
booktitle = {American Comparative Literature Association ACLA},
year = {2016},
location = {Boston, USA},
keywords = {Keywords: Feminine narratives; The Sacred Defense genre; Da; Memoir-novel; Discourse},
}

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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Da: The Honor of Popularity and Authenticity
%A Ghandeharion, Azra
%A MOOSAVI TAKIEH, MARYAMOSSADAT
%A Ghorban Sabbagh, Mahmood Reza
%J American Comparative Literature Association ACLA
%D 2016

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