Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• jafar fasaei ¹
• somayeh rezaee ²

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Abstract

In most of the definitions, myth has been interpreted as the collective wishes of humans . These wishes are sometimes used to interpret and justify the mysterious phenomena of nature, sometimes in the form of counter-narratives against the narrative of nothingness and death, and sometimes in the form of hopes and wishes far from human reach. Along with this range of definitions, and based on contemporary intellectual-philosophical approaches centered on concepts such as power and ideology, myths should not necessarily be considered as emerging from the collective mind of pre-modern man with the above functions, but rather a kind of power-oriented discourse that in Power relations emerge and, like an ideological tool, play a role in strengthening or weakening a particular discourse. From this perspective and with such a reading of the myth, we have followed the relationship between the novel Shohar e ahokhanom and the myth. The results show that Shohar e ahokhanom's novel is actually a secular form of the creation myth, and this myth is encoded in this very important and well-known work by preserving its general lines and frameworks. By placing the myth of creation in the formula of the special reading of the present article of the myth, i.e. the discourse focused on power, it was found that the function of this myth, in accordance with the requirements, issues and problematics of the author's era, was placed in the direction of suppressing women for the benefit of patriarchy

Keywords

• "؛ Myth"؛
• "؛ power"؛ domination"؛ ideology"؛
• "؛ Shohar e ahokhanom"

Main Subjects

• Literary interdisciplinary research