Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Associate Professor, of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
3 PhD student of Persian language and literature, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
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Novels depict various aspects of personal and social lives of people. In novels, writers portray socio-political concepts. The social constructivist reading of novels involves a literary analysis of works of fiction, relying on how characters, events, as well as setting are constructed, and in what ways they affect the mindset of the readership. From this perspective, a text is regarded as a unique construction whose individual components can affect the meaning and communication in every way. Simin Daneshvar's Sovashoon appears to be a literary work of value to be studied from this perspective, in terms of gender, social setting, religion, power, etc. To do this, first we try to show how Daneshvar as a novelist deals with realities from a social constructivist point of view. Then, we would try to explicate in what ways she uses social issues throughout the novel. The results of the novel would show how socio-political events in Sovashoon are at times invented by the author to affect the readers in order to increase the actions in the novel. This analysis is hoped to result in a deeper understanding of the relationships between literature and the sociopolitical realities of Iranian society.
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