Explanation and analysis of women's writing in Simin Daneshvar's Savushun novel Based on the feminist stylistics of Sara Mills

Subject Areas : مطالعات نقد ادبی

saeide khojastepour ¹ , mohammadAli Gozashti ² , Abdolhosein farzad ³

1 - Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Central Tehran Branch
2 - department of persian language and literature central tehran Branch, Islamic Azad university. Tehran
3 - Department of perian language and literature, Humanities and cultural studies research institute tehran

Received: 2023-01-13 Accepted : 2023-04-09 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: novel, Savushun, Simin Daneshvar, women's writing, feminist stylistics, Sara Mills,

Abstract :

"Feminist stylistics" is one of the social-cultural approaches of stylistic knowledge, which "Sara Mills" presents as a model in this field, and this method is the best way to investigate and analyze the issue of feminism and its effectiveness in literary texts by using their dimensions and linguistic aspects. Knows. In this article, using this model, we answer the question of what are the characteristics of women's writing and how does it appear in the novel in question. Mills believes that female writers use various linguistic components in the structure and content of their works with the influence of their feminine characteristics, emotions and gender views, and therefore, in the analysis of their works, attention should be paid to three levels of analysis based on words, sentences and discourse. Therefore, with this view and using the model proposed by Sara Mills and the opinions of experts in this field, Simin Daneshvar's novel "Savushun" was selected and analyzed. This research was carried out in the field of practical stylistics and with the descriptive-library method and analyzes based on it based on the components of Sara Mills' model and with the aim of finding the characteristics of women's writing in the selected work. The findings of the research with the characteristics of women's writing in the mentioned novel are as follows: At the level of vocabulary: the multiple use of feminine expressions in Farsi, words belonging to women's domain, the use of color words, the multitude of female characters; At the level of sentences: the use of simple news, descriptive, short, emotional, and detailed sentences. The use of meta-linguistic signs of three dots and a dash, low frequency emotional aspect, question sentences in the form of Soliloquy. On the discourse level: third person (omniscient) external point of view, main character: Yusuf and Zari, narrative text, author narrator, polite and friendly tone, theme with feminist ideas. The time and place of the story of the first Pahlavi period, Shiraz and its villages.

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