جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « regime of truth » در نشریات گروه « ادبیات و زبان ها »

Traditional societies had a patriarchal structure at the beginning of the modern era. The extent of patriarchal norms and the domination of what Michel Foucault called the "regime of truth" in the traditional epoch tried to consider women as an object and in this way to keep women under men's control. Women's resistance to patriarchal hegemony and the fate of women's resistance to the domination of this ideology in literary works has become a point of confrontation between the New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt, and Cultural Materialist Alan Sinfield. The former believes that women's opposition to the dominant discourse and patriarchal ideology is ultimately digested by the dominant ideology. On the other hand, Sinfield and other cultural materialists are optimistic about the outcome of this confrontation. According to them, women's resistance to patriarchal ideology demonstrate dissidence being incorporated, necessarily, with reference to dominant structures and it can ultimately lead to the discontinuity of patriarchal hegemony. This study aims to explore the consequence of women's resistance in the folklore tale of "Khaj and Siamand" based on the New historicism and Cultural Materlism readings. The former considers that women's resistance is suppressed by the ruling hegemony while the cultural materialists assert that challenging the patriarchal hegemony yields questioning the patriarchy. Thus, woman is no longer a passive object in the hands of male-dominated ideology, but she becomes an active subject. Women can make their own identity and rule their own destiny.

Folk narratives play an influential role in shaping the identity of the female subject in society, so that the cultural values ​​of the community, largely defined by the prevailing cultural discourse, are reflected through what Foucault calls the "regime of truth". This, in turn, defines the teachings of system of truth for the community through the folk narratives. This paper aims to, first, introduce two folk narratives of the Khorasan region called The Stone Woman and Zohreh: The Dumb Girl in a novel by Yasmin Crowther named The Saffron Kitchen. These two folk tales are written in English for the readers and represent the image of female subject echoed in Iranian folk narratives. This representation also echoes the dominant discourse, and patriarchal cultural hegemony in folk narratives. This investigation, then, examines how the social reflection of the creation of women identity can influence the identity of the female subject. Contemporary female writers have also put emphasize on challenging this hegemony and have constructed a new identity by generating a transnational cultural space. This study explores a novel of the Iranian diasporic literature, in which folk literature is reflected as a prelude to reflecting cultural hegemony, attempting to recall the role of folk literature in reflecting how traditional identity was formed and put forth the cultural "liminal space" for constructing a new female identity. The findings show that the female subject can be independently shaped, regardless of the supremacy of the cultural hegemony, and have a voice to be heard.