Academic literature on the topic 'Persian Authors'

This thesis examines the first collections of modern Persian literature written by Iranian female authors in the context of a process of gender modernization during the Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s reign (1941-1979). This thesis argues that women’s literature written during the period of transition from tradition to modernity is clearly influenced by the state’s gender policy and illustrates the changing position of women’s status in private and public life. Indeed, an examination of the collections of short stories and poems that were produced in this period demonstrates that female authors were concerned with the unveiling policy, arranged marriage and polygamy, women’s education, women’s social participation, women’s domestic obligations, women’s political awakening, and female sexuality. Furthermore, central themes covered by female authors changed significantly based on the transformations of gender politics the society experienced from the 1940s and 1950s to the 1960s and 1970s.

This paper sets out to investigate and discuss what a translator may do when the source text for some reasons needs to be improved. The analysis is based on examples from a source text in need of quite extensive editing. This editing is called for to be able to present a translation that is satisfactory as well for the target reader as for the translator. To achieve this, the translator has to deal with a series of crucial decisions. One important determinant of any decision on part of the translator is, of course, the quality of the source text, which may vary a great deal. Originals sometimes exhibit flaws of various kinds. In such cases, what is the translator supposed to do? Is (s)he supposed to deliver a translation that contains the same mistakes as the ST, or is (s)he supposed to rewrite a poor text? The main focus of the present study is to discuss possible strategies for changes and to find support for the translator to work with improving editing in a text that needs to be improved. More specifically, focus is on looking at the strategies that are available when it comes to three specific problem areas, viz person perspective, author visibility and repetition. The study initiates a further discussion of the translator's mission – should it include making a brilliant version of a poor source text? It was found that the translator should not transfer language flaws that might appear in a source text with no stylistic pretentions, but instead produce an improved target text, even if that entails rather extensive editing.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University. 2015<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Seeking to explore modes of self-representation in women’s life writing and the ways in which these subjects manipulate the autobiographical ‘I’ to write about gender, the body, race and ethnic related issues, this thesis interrogates the autobiographies of three renegade women whose works were birthed out of the de/colonial South African context between 1854-1948. The chosen texts are: Marina King’s Sunrise to Evening Star: My Seventy Years in South Africa (1935), Melina Rorke’s Melina Rorke: Her Amazing Experiences in the Stormy Nineties of South-African History (1938), and two memoirs by Petronella van Heerden, Kerssnuitsels (1962) and Die 16de Koppie (1965). My analysis is underpinned by relevant life writing and feminist criticism, such as the notion of female autobiographical “embodiment” (239) and the ‘I’s reliance on “relationality” (248) as discussed in the work of Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (Reading Autobiography). I further draw on Judith Butler’s concept of “performativity” (Bodies that Matter 234) in my analysis in order to suggest that there is a performative aspect to the female ‘I’ in these texts. The aim of this thesis is to illustrate how these self-representations of women can be read as counter-conventional, speaking out against stereotypical perceptions and conventions of their time and in literatures (fiction and criticism) which cast women as tractable, compliant pertaining to patriarchal oversight, as narrow-minded and apathetic regarding achieving notoriety and prominence beyond their ascribed position in their separate societies. I argue that these works are representative of alternative female subjectivities and are examples of South African women’s life writing which lie ‘dusty’ and forgotten in archives; voices that are worthy of further scholarly research which would draw the stories of women’s lives back into the literary consciousness.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In ‘n poging om metodes van self-uitbeelding te bespreek en die manier waarop die ‘ek’ van vroulike ego-tekste manipuleer om sodoende te skryf oor geslagsrolle, die liggaam, ras en ander etniese kwessies, ondersoek hierdie verhandeling die outbiografieë van drie onkonvensionele vrouens se werk, gebore vanuit die de/koloniale konteks in Suid-Afrika tussen 1854-1948. Die ego-tekste wat in hierdie navorsingstuk ondersoek word, sluit in: Marina King se Sunrise to Evening Star: My Seventy Years in South Africa (1935), Melina Rorke se Melina Rorke: Her Amazing Experiences in the Stormy Nineties of South-African History (1938), en twee memoirs geskryf deur Petronella van Heerden, Kerssnuitsels (1962) en Die 16de Koppie (1965). My analise word ondersteun deur relevante kritici van feministiese en outobiografiese velde. Ek bespreek onder andere die idee dat die vroulike ‘ek’ liggaamlik “vergestalt” (239) is in outobiografie, asook die ‘ek’ se afhanklikheid van “relasionaliteit” (248) soos uiteengesit in die werk van Sidonie Smith en Julia Watson (Reading Autobiography). Verder stel ek voor, met verwysing na Judith Butler, dat daar ‘n “performative” (Bodies that Matter 234) aspek na vore kom in die vroulike ‘ek’ van Suid- Afrikaanse outobiografie. Die doel van hierdie tesis is om uit te lig dat hierdie selfvoorstellings van vroue gelees kan word as kontra-konvensioneel; dat die stereotipiese uitbeelding van vroue as skroomhartig, nougeset, gedweë ten opsigte van patriargale oorsig, en willoos om meer te vermag as wat hul onderskeie gemeenskappe vir hul voorskryf, weerspreek word deur hierdie ego-tekste. Die doel is om sodanige outobiografiese vertellings en -uitbeeldings te vergelyk en sodoende uiteenlopende vroulike subjektiwiteite gedurende die periode 1854-1948 te belig. Ek verwys deurlopend na voorbeelde van ander gemarginaliseerde Suid-Afrikaanse vroulike ego-tekse om aan te dui dat daar weliswaar ‘n magdom ‘vergete’ en ‘stof-bedekte’ vrouetekste geskryf is in die afgebakende periode. Ek voor aan dat die ‘stem’ van die vroulike ‘ek’ allermins stagneer het, en dat verdere bestudering waarskynlik nodig is.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gilmara Alonso Tacito.pdf: 562905 bytes, checksum: ce9b87075600c330f6eba4efd4bee78b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-29<br>The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the presence of the Author Creator entity interacting with characters in narratives "São Marcos" and "Sarapalha" (1946), Sagarana (1946), written by João Guimarães Rosa (1908- 1967). Concerning to the assumptions of the aesthetic material of Mikhail Bakhtin, it is understood that there is no linkage between work and life of the author, whereas popular culture connects the study of the literary work to the writer's life, only to listen to his voice, pointed to confidences. For the author, all aesthetic analysis should not be targeted directly to the work, but about what the work represents for the aesthetic activity of the artist and the reader. Our object here is delineated as the stuffing of this aesthetic activity focused on the literary work: the aesthetic object. This is the dual-perspective, here, applied to the reading of Rosa's narrative: reading the aesthetic object in its singularity and artistic structure called aesthetic architectonic object, design that allows to the Author Person (ethical-social element) unfolded in Author Creator (constitutive element of the artistic form). This compositional unity is realized between the consciousness of the Author Creator and the outside world resulting from an architectonic model of the human psyche, that makes the world (otherness) your utterance, and, in it, his conscience: with this focus we claim to read the "stranger" in Guimarães Rosa. That is, to read the artistic form as an event or achievement. The reading methodology applied in this study is also based on the concept of the aesthetic object, by practicing discrimination and isolation of the analytical material deductive of the usual perception to the unusual artistic literary form of both tales from Sagarana, in their specific critical-interpretation. The theoretical background is Mikhail Bakhtin, and supporting concepts applied to the analysis, and interpretation, pointing to: Tzvetan Todorov; Katerina Clark & Michael Holquist; Roland Barthes; Antonio Candido; Massaud Moises; Carlos Alberto Faraco; Marília Amorim; Renata Coelho Marchezan<br>O objetivo desta dissertação é investigar a presença da entidade Autor-Criador em interação com as personagens nas narrativas São Marcos e Sarapalha , da obra Sagarana (1946), de João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967). A partir dos pressupostos da estética material de Mikhail Bakhtin (2006), entende-se que não há vinculação entre obra e vida do autor, considerando que a literatura corrente faz a conexão do estudo da obra à vida do escritor, para apenas ouvir a sua voz, a revelar-se em confidências. Para o autor, toda análise estética não deve ser orientada diretamente sobre a obra, mas sobre o que a obra representa para a atividade estética do artista e do leitor. Nosso objeto, aqui, se delineia como o conteúdo dessa atividade estética orientada sobre a obra: o objeto estético. Esta é a dupla perspectiva, aqui, aplicada à leitura das narrativas rosianas: ler o objeto estético na sua singularidade e na estrutura artística chamado objeto estético arquitetônico, concepção que permite ao Autor-Pessoa (elemento ético-social) desdobrar-se em Autor-Criador (elemento constitutivo da forma artística). Dessa forma composicional é concretizada a unidade entre a consciência do Autor- Criador e o mundo exterior resultante de uma Mente arquitetônica, que faz do mundo (outrem) seu enunciado, e, desse, sua consciência: com esse olhar pretendemos ler o estranho em Guimarães Rosa. Em outras palavras, ler a forma artística em acontecimento ou realização. A metodologia de leitura aplicada neste estudo também se fundamenta no conceito de objeto estético, ao praticar a discriminação e isolamento do material analítico-dedutivo da percepção habitual para o insólito da forma artística literária de ambos os textos os contos de Sagarana em suas especificidades crítico-interpretativas. O teórico de nossa referência é Mikhail Bakhtin e os autores de apoio conceitual aplicados à análise e interpretação assim se nomeiam: Tzvetan Todorov; Katerina Clark & Michael Holquist; Roland Barthes; Antonio Cândido; Massaud Moisés; Carlos Alberto Faraco; Marília Amorim; Renata Coelho Marchezan

This literary study examines the formulation of masculinity in Syrian novels authored by women. The thesis covers the period between 1959 and 2000, corresponding to both the development of the female-authored novel in Syria and the creation of the modern Syrian state. This research engages with studies of masculinity in general and literary masculinity studies in particular. Drawing on the seminal work of Raewyn Connell as well as engaging with studies on masculinity and feminine narratology in Swedish, English and Arabic, the thesis analyses the formulation of literary masculinity through the fictional societies’ ideal masculinity on the one hand, and the female characters’ views and reactions to masculinity on the other. From a general survey of the field, 34 novels undertaking the formulation of gendered relations were identified and chosen for this study. From this selection, five themes emerged, forming the foundation of this thesis’ main chapters. The five themes explore, in turn, how stereotypes are utilised to critique gender roles, ways in which male and female characters collaborate to formulate gender norms, how female characters capitalise on patriarchy in order to enhance their lives, male characters as symbols for social and political change and finally, the difficulties included in the performance of masculinity. Each theme is exemplified through one novel, which is analysed in detail. Throughout the five chapters, the main novel chosen for analysis is put into conversation with other novels with similar themes but from different decades. This allows for an examination of changing ideals of masculinity in addition to the theme itself. The first theme, how stereotypes are utilised to critique gender roles, is studied through a close reading of al-Ẓahr al-‘ārī (The Naked back) by Hanrīyit ‘Abbūdī. The analysis illustrates how the expected normative behaviour of men and women is utilised in order to comment on the formulation of gender roles. The chapter further demonstrates ways in which what is seen as gender specific behaviour can be appropriated by the opposite gender. This is further developed through the examination of female writers taking over the male voice through a first person male narrator. The second theme, ways in which male and female characters collaborate to formulate gender norms, is discussed through a close reading of the novel Khaṭawāt fī al-ḍabāb (Steps in the fog) by Malāḥa al-Khānī. This chapter illustrates the similar expectations that both male and female characters have on their sons and fellow male characters. This includes taking on the role of provider and protector, even in the cases where the female characters are able to look after themselves. The third theme, how female characters capitalise on patriarchy in order to enhance their lives, is elaborated through a close reading of Ayyām ma‘ahu (Days with him) by Kūlīt Khūrī. This theme demonstrates how the female character constructs herself and her world around the idea of a perfect male, whom she thinks will save her. The analysis examines what is seen as ideal traits in a man. It further discusses the change of the female character and how her initial utilisation of patriarchal structure transforms into a critique of the same structure. The fourth theme, male characters as symbols for social and political change, is seen through a close reading of Dimashq yā basmat al-ḥuzn (Damascus, o smile of sadness) by Ulfat al-Idlibī. The chapter connects between changing social ideals and ideal masculinity. Through Bayrūt 75 (Beirut 75) by Ghāda al-Sammān, the fifth theme, the difficulties included in the performance of masculinity, is studied. The problematic masculinity presented is then put in contrast with what appears to be a suggestion that a performance of femininity could be an alternative to unsuccessful masculinity. Whereas the novels differ in their presentation of masculinity and the utilisation of ideal masculinity, they agree on a set of core traits summarised in a hegemonic ideal of masculinity as an ability to provide and protect. The ways in which this should be performed is however closely connected to the female characters’ ideas of emancipation and women’s rights. The female writers’ formulation of masculinity can hence be said to mirror the development of the female characters and their awareness of women’s rights. The thesis hopes that its original contribution to knowledge is the identification and examination of constructed masculinities in Syrian female-authored fiction. Moreover, this thesis studies a body of Syrian fiction previously largely unstudied in Western academia, and in a framework of Swedish, English and Arabic secondary sources.