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Showing 2 results for Jacques Derrida
Hamid Abdollahian, Farnoush Farahmand, year 20, Issue 72 (5-2012)
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Najdi is one of the outstanding contemporary writers due to his specific style. He has a different attitude towards human life and cultural elements of Iran, which makes his stories a good subject for discussion and research. In this article, two stories of Najdi are analyzed in the light of Deconstruction: “The Day of Asb-rizi” and “The Night of Killing Sohrab”. Deconstruction is mostly based on Derrida’s theory. It originated and was initially used in Philosophy and then it spread to literary criticism. The aim of Deconstruction is to find the binary oppositions, to analyze them in order to reveal the contradictory points and to deny the accepted assumptions. The results of this process is to doubt those beliefs that have been considered as axiomatic up to that time. In Najdi’s stories, the binary oppositions include man/animal, man/nature and man and civilization. In “The Day of Asb-rizi”, the opposition between man and animal, and, freedom and slavery causes some contradictions in the major themes of the story. In “The Night of Killing Sohrab”, the binary opposition is that of harsh patriarchal world/ innocent childish world, or, experience/inexperience.
Maryam Hamoongard, Ali Reza Nabilou Chehrrghani, year 32, Issue 96 (4-2024)
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The story of “ An overly woman” is one of the nine short stories of a story with the same title, which was first published at the time of the life of Jalal Al Ahmad, a contemporary author in 1331. The focus of all the stories of this collection are the women and the author criticizes their disasters and problems. This article studies the story of “An overly woman” from this collection from the viewpoint of the Deconstruction Criticism. The Deconstruction Criticism was based on the theory of Jacques Derrida (1930- 2004), the philosopher and the French theorist. This critique was first used in philosophy and then in literary critique. The basis for the Deconstruction Criticism is finding binary and hidden oppositions in the text; because by discovering these contrasts, you can find the secret and internal layers of the text. According to Jacques Derrida, intra-textual oppositions are hierarchical and staircase, and are preferred over the other, but studding the text, it is ultimately determined that none binary oppositions are preferred over the other and they actually complement each other. The Deconstruction Criticism is based on the review of accepted defaults and deconstructing of the textual contrasts. It delves whatever the reader should know into the text itself. Conflict in the story of “An overly woman” is between man and man in terms and man / woman in particular. After studding binary oppositions in the text and identifying hostile forces, it turns out that, contrary to what it is seemed in the early reading, the top pole in the text, which has formed the internal challenge of the text is not the wicked man against the oppressed woman, but two oppositions alongside each other form the story.
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