Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Hossein Adhami ¹
• masroureh mokhtari ²
• bizhan zahiri nav ²

¹ PhD student of Persian language and literature University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

² Professor of the Department of Persian Language and Literature University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

Abstract

The novel Kelidar, the longest novel of Mahmoud Dolatabadi, tells the story of the uprising of the peasants of the Khorasan region in the 1320 s. In this work, Dolatabadi depicts the development and decline stages of this uprising with a realistic method. In this novel, the conflict between social classes, which can be classified into two classes, the lower and upper classes, leads to the armed uprising of a Kurdish youth named Gul Mohammad Kalmishi. At the beginning of this uprising, the lower classes of peasants and villagers who were fed up with the oppression of the lords supported Gul Mohammad, but as time passed, the lords who felt threatened by Gul Mohammad's power and reputation united against him and using the new political developments in the country, They accompany the government in suppressing this uprising. With an interdisciplinary approach (sociology and literature) and a descriptive-analytical method based on the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu (a famous French sociologist and theorist), this article tries to analyze social classes from the perspective of habits, capitals and inter-class relations, and the role of upper classes and Examine the subordinates in the formation and failure of this uprising. According to the findings of this research, in Kelider's novel, poverty and exploitation resulting from the unfair distribution of capital and its accumulation in the upper classes become the basis for the uprising of the lower classes, but finally, due to reasons such as lack of readiness in the lower classes ...

Keywords

• Mahmoud Dolatabadi
• Kleidar
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Social Classes
• Symbolic Violence

Main Subjects

• Literary interdisciplinary research