Satirical Content in Mohammad Ali Afrashte’s Work
Subject Areas : Persian Language and LiteratureAida Parspour 1 , Esmat Khoeini 2
1 - M. A. in Persian Language and literature
University of Kharazmi
2 - Assistant Professor, Persian Language and literature
University of Kharazmi
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Abstract :
Mohammad Ali Afrashteh (1909–1960) is one of the poineers in Gilan poetry and social satire in the form of the famous persian poetry and simple prose. He has been defending labors so he considers one of the greatest candidates of labouring literature. Art of Afrashteh is that while making other people laugh, encourage them to think about their own rights too. Chalangar newspaper which has been published for two years and a half since (1951), is the result of his literary life and somehow reflects his beliefs and thoughts. Most of Afrashteh´s writings have been published in this newspaper. The content of Afrashteh´s writings is the criticize of social and political suituation which has been shown in the form of poetry, story, play and has been show by satire language.He has seen big problems in Iran society which can destroy and reteocede Iran society. As a result, he as a patriot and revolutionary person will reflect the problems in his writings in a simple language and based on his political views will find a solution for the care of their pains. This writing included different way of social, economical, cultural, political and moral criticizing by the analysis of Mohammad Ali Afrashteh´series of writings.
نجفزاده بارفروش، محمدباقر، (1378)، طنزنویسان ایران از مشروطه تا امروز، تهران: خانواده.
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