In this situation, literary criticism of the novels demands an approach that discusses feminism, language, and translation as interrelated. The portrayal of such violence relies on language that illustrates the authors’ concerns and their commentary on the status of women.
In Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men, the authors meticulously employ colloquial sexist diction to expose the connection between sexism and violence against women. (Oct.Contemporary Iranian women writers contribute to the Iranian literary tradition by writing about women’s roles during the political upheavals leading up to and after the 1979 Revolution. In the exuberant, virtuoso title story, a sea captain born in Madras, shipwrecked off Africa, recalls his smuggling exploits, his life in the Persian Gulf and the wife and daughter he forced into prostitution and then abandoned half-delirious, he undergoes an exorcism to free himself of possession by a mermaid and then dictates his vision of a world free from tyranny and sorrow. Born in 1921, Daneshvar portrays a world full of injustices and cruel surprises redeemed by hope and acts of kindness, such as a midwife's clandestine visit to save the life of an ungrateful pregnant woman (``Childbirth''). There is the domestic tragedy of ``A City Like Paradise,'' which tells of a black servant cudgeled and thrown out by her employer, who is jealous of her bonds with household members the tart comedy of ``Anis,'' about a woman who, as she shuttles from one husband to the next, swings from subservience to fervid religiosity to urbane sophistication the social commentary of ``Potshards,'' describing a patronizing, elderly white woman's impromptu attempt to adopt a village orphan. These six vibrant stories by Iranian novelist Daneshvar (Savushun) chronicle the vicissitudes of life-its horror, unfairness, humor and fleeting beauty.
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