Examination of the Women Portrait in the Prominent Novels for Holy Defense based on the Bakhtin's Polyphony Logic

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate in Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persain Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran

2 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persain Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran.

3 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persain Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran

10.22126/rp.2022.7222.1473

Abstract

Bakhtin paved the way for a new conceptual approach in the novel by introducing the two concepts of "conversational logic" or "dialogue" and "polyphony". Accordingly, the main issue of the present study is to assess the position of the "other" and polyphony in Iranian sustainability novels whose main characters and authors are women, and to what extent the works have approached polyphony by observing the boundaries of neutrality? In the body of the article, which was conducted on the basis of a descriptive-analytical method, Bakhtin's views about the presence of "another" in the text with his two key concepts (dialogue and polyphony) are described and studied in the novels in question, prior to anything. As the results of the study have indicated, these novels cause acquaintance and cognition of "other", and regocnize the thoughts and ideas of the characters in accordance with the Heroes. Polyphony helps the characters have a chance to speak and introduce themselves to the readers. Variety of perspective in the considered novels has been emerged as a narrator shifts within several consecutive chapters and the narrator changes. This narrative method exists in the forms of monophonic (first person), monologue (hadith of the soul), first person observer, and third person. What is called "another" or polyphony in war novels is the presence of the enemy. Precisely, the presence of "another" in the studied novels is only transient and independent of conversations.
Introduction:
One of the most important theories of Bakhtin is dialogism and polyphony, which happens to be in close connection with each other. Polyphony refers to the equal distribution of sounds in a text. By introducing the two concepts of "conversational logic" and "polyphony" in the book entitled as; the Problems of Dostoyevsky's Literary Theory, Bakhtin laid the foundation for the invention of a new concept called intertextuality by Julia Kristeva.
Methodology:
Examining the personality of women and their issues is one of the important topics of the fiction literature of the Holy Defense. Although these people were mostly active behind the fronts, their role is not only not less than men, but in some cases it has been more when it comes to the fields of service and support. The present research was carried out using a descriptive and analytical method via targeting the statistical population of the works of female writers in the “holy defense” literature. Such works of art have been studied and analyzed based on Bakhtin's theory of polyphony.
Results and Discussion:
Having investigations over the personality of women and their issues is one of the prominent topics of the fiction literature of the Holy Defense. Although these people were mostly active behind the fronts; But in the field of service and support, their role is not only not less than men, but in some cases it has been more. The selected novels have been studied and analyzed based on Bakhtin's theory of polyphony. Changing the dialogues between the characters of these stories has led to a sufficient understanding of the characters. What is evident in these stories is the different characters and their verbal communication. The current research intends to use Bakhtin's theory of polyphony to deal with the following topics, such as investigating the people's personality, ideology and thoughts.
Conclusion:
Integrating the monologue method, Carnivalesque, monotony, and allowing the other (enemy) to express their theories (especially the novel, I am alive), the female characters (Comprisign a wide range from the author to the female protagonist in the novels) using the monologue method, have portrayed a face of the righteousness of the holy defense. Polyphony, in these novels, has led to the recognition of the "other". The presence of this "other person" in the studied novels, except the novel I am alive and “Da”, which, in some scenes, is done as a direct conversation with the enemy, is only in passing and without conversations. In general, it can be cocluded that, despite the presence of different voices and different viewpoints, as "the other", the novels are still far from the characteristic of dialogism from Bakhtin's point of view. Because, due to his democratic belief, he does not accept any superiority of one voice over another and he believes that all voices must be heard at the same level

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