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Jamil Jafari

Jamil Jafari

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 45673
Faculty: Faculty of Language and Literature
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Phone: 33664600- داخلی 2399

Research

Title
A Comparative Analysis of Simin Behbahani and Souad al-Sabah's Poetry (From the Perspective of Feminist Critique)
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
comparative literature, contemporary poetry, feminist criticism, Simin Behbahani, Souad al-Sabah.
Year
2022
Journal Critical Literary Studies
DOI
Researchers Sharafat Karimi ، Jamil Jafari ، Fatemeh Abasi

Abstract

In the early twentieth century, with the rise of women's issues in the continuation of the world's feminist movements, women's literature was formed in Iran and the Arab world. Women's issues in Persian and Arabic poetry first appeared in the poems of Forough Farrokhzad and Ghada al-Saman. Later, Simin Behbahani in Persian literature and Souad al-Sabah in Arabic became famous poets in the framework of liberal feminism and gave a new interpretation of women's desires and problems. Challenging gender discrimination, they have raised the issue of human equality in a reformist and principled manner. This article has analyzed and compared the components of feminist criticism in the poetry of two poets with a descriptive-analytical method and a comparative approach. Discrimination due to misconceptions about love, marriage, and the emphasis on awareness, freedom, individual and identity independence, and changing attitudes are among the most important themes of two poets. Because of their social commonalities, beliefs, lived experiences, traditions, and similar circumstances, they have described the status and position of women with highly realistic conceptions of common themes. The critical point of view and the style of expression of both poets are non-iconoclastic and in accordance with liberal feminism; But Simin's discourse is more flexible and Souad's critique of social and cultural constructions is more intense. However, the emphasis on preserving individuality as opposed to the ideological foundation of society in the matter of lovemaking and the expression of emotions in Simin's poems is more obvious and bold.