Sociological Reading of the Novel Shekar-e-Talkh By theoretically combining Marx's

Hadeian, Morteza; Sabetzadeh, Mansoureh; Abolhassan Tanhaee, Hossein

doi:10.22126/rp.2021.5653.1247

Sociological Reading of the Novel Shekar-e-Talkh By theoretically combining Marx's "historical materialism" and Blumer's Self Interaction

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Ph.D. Student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.22126/rp.2021.5653.1247

Abstract

From a sociological point of view, one must pay attention to his bio-socio-economic situations, and more importantly, one must consider the interrelationships and their outcome in order to know man. Marx's theory of historical materialism means understanding the evolution of human societies based on material conditions in all periods of human history. The intellectuals in this theory believe it is possible to explore how human society has evolved over the course of history by using this theory. The research method is descriptive-analytical. This article analyzes the theoretical combination of Marx's "historical materialism" and Blumer's "self-interaction" on how the characters in Jafar Shahrifaf's novel Shekar-e-Talkh act. In the world of the novel, with the collapse of the production system, the semantic system changes and the production relations and political, cultural and economic structures also break. These conditions give rise to the formation of the "self" of the novel's characters in new forms. With the transformation of the cultural superstructures of the "self", the first and second generations are in opposition to each other, which leads to the marginalization of the "self" of the first generation. The contradiction of "self" is also reproduced in the second generation, which is shown by the rejection of the "social self" of the previous generation and the transition to a new situation

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