Criticism and analysis of ecological discourse in novel Fig Tree of temples by Ahmad Mahmoud from perspective of discourse of power

Document Type : Original Article

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PhD in Persian language and literature of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

Abstract
The presence of nature in novel “Fig Tree of Temples” by Ahmad Mahmoud is subject to discourses that affect all structures of society, which can analyzed in four categories of subversion, rupture, externalization and alterity based on Foucault's thought. In this research, with a descriptive-analytical method, we will deal with question that conflict between two discourses of tradition and modernity has contained what developments and consequences in biogeography of fictional society under our research? By responding to it, we will find out causes of lack of evolution of human and natural environment in order to reach a kind of epistemology in dealing with nature. The results of research indicate that, based on principle of inversion, man's domination over nature in modern era resulted in adverse consequences for environmental and human society. The destruction of garden and construction of town and lack of attention to nature and essence of nature in discourse of modernity reproduces breaking point of tradition and modernity. According to Foucault's principle of externality, inconsistency of existing layers in traditional and modern discourse and its application in a specific geographical area has caused entropy in biological and human society which is based on principle of alterity its roots can be seen in concepts of knowledge in two historical periods with different functions; Different functions that have formed resistances and caused ecological and human society not to go through an evolutionary process and do not imply emergence of new environmental propositions that will put nature on a new path.

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