Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• fatemeh golbabaee ¹
• Abdullah Albughobaish ²

¹ Ph.D. Candidate in Persian language and literature faculty in Allame Tabataei University

² Associate Prof. in Persian Lit. at Allameh Tabatabaei Univ.

Abstract

Comparative cultural studies in an age of globalization constitute a key analytical framework for literature, particularly intercultural texts. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, a prominent researcher in comparative cultural studies, emphasizes the movement towards the dialogue of cultures and working against the contemporary paradox of globalization versus localization. This essay employs a descriptive-analytical method, based on Tötösy's principles, to analyze a novel by Iranian Novelist Mahmoud Dolatabadi, “That Red Mane Mare”. The novel revolves around Imru' al-Qais, an ancient Arabian poet seeking revenge against his father's killers. While the meta-fictional presence of the author in the narrative and the relationship between the Persian man and Imru' al-Qais claim to establish a cross-cultural dialogue as its central discourse, fundamentally, merging the "other"’s voice in author’s and the recognition of the "other" based on the benefits it provides, contradict that claim. Indeed, the novel has serious cultural paradoxes that make it a local text without strong connections with the "other" as it seems.

Keywords

• Comparative cultural studies, Steven Tö
• tö
• sy de Zepetnek, the other, That Red Mane Mare, Mahmoud Dolatabadi

Main Subjects

• Literary interdisciplinary research