Ovais Mohammadi; Zeinab Sadeghi
Abstract
Ghada al-Saman has been affected in her short story:” A Man in the Alley” by the theory of some feminist writers like Simone de Beauvoir. Using the existentialistic- feministic theory of de Beauvoir,she tried to highlight the idea of women’s oppression through cultures during time long before ...
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Ghada al-Saman has been affected in her short story:” A Man in the Alley” by the theory of some feminist writers like Simone de Beauvoir. Using the existentialistic- feministic theory of de Beauvoir,she tried to highlight the idea of women’s oppression through cultures during time long before its explanation by de Beauvoir. This short story depicts her endeavor for deconstructing the values of a patriarchal society .Denying the characteristics such as passiveness and otherness and anti-rationalism in women’s side in her short story, she insists on her own language, the most obvious characteristic of which is the extensive use of imaginary and poetic symbols.
Shahriar Niazi; Ovais Mohammadi
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“The Negro” is a short story written by Zakariyya Tamer the Syrian writer based on surrealistic principles and is affected by Freud’s theories of the psychoanalysis. The narrative type in this story is stream of consciousness and the style of writing is based on unconsciousness ground. Thus, the ...
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“The Negro” is a short story written by Zakariyya Tamer the Syrian writer based on surrealistic principles and is affected by Freud’s theories of the psychoanalysis. The narrative type in this story is stream of consciousness and the style of writing is based on unconsciousness ground. Thus, the characters and the events of the story have been aroused of the unconsciousness of the writer. Accordingly, all elements of the story can be analyzed, based on the theories of psychoanalysis.
This article aims at analysis of the characters and the events of this story on the basis of psychoanalytic theories and ascription every single character or event to a special part of unconsciousness which -according to Freud- has three distinct parts . The paper assumes the character of the Negro (Blackamoor) “Siah zangi” as “Id” and the narrator as “Ego” and the girl (in the third episode) and the “foreman” (in the fifth episode) as representatives of “Superego” in above-mentioned theories. The paper displays the events of the story as they happen in two different phases, the first is the period in which the “Life instinct” is dominant and the second (episode 6) is the stage of the “Death instinct” ‘s superiority over the “Life instinct”.
