جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « indigenous culture » در نشریات گروه « ادبیات و زبان ها »

Regional culture, encompassing the collective beliefs, thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and interactions among members of any indigenous community, is recognized as a rich source in the production of literary works. This common ground has led prominent writers such as Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Gholamhossein Sa'edi to delve into the study, research, and scrutiny of the culture prevalent in various regions of Iran, especially lesser-known areas. The author of this study aims to investigate how indigenous and regional cultural elements are employed in the production of literary works based on two works by Gholamhossein Sa'edi, "Ahle Hawa" and "Tars-o-Larz."The methodology employed in this study is comparative-analytical. The results of the investigation indicate that Sa'edi, in writing "Tars-o-Larz," deliberately incorporates numerous instances and narrative elements such as time, place, characters, and plot twists derived from the collective indigenous and regional beliefs of the southern people. For instance, the concept of time in "Tars-o-Larz" aligns with non-calendar-based and mythological folk beliefs.

The present Article is a study of the effect of the indigenous cultural factors of the Igbo of Nigeria on the identity of the Nigerian Igbo women in the post-independence Nigeria as represented in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. Post-colonial feminists like Spivak and Holloway believe that without the recognition of the specific cultural elements surrounding the Third World women it is impossible to represent the material condition of the life of the subaltern women by methodologies of Western feminism. Through ages of suppression under patriarchy and colonialism, the ‘epistemic violence’ has suppressed the voice of the subaltern woman, and Holloway believes that the texts written by the African female authors apply particular strategies that are rooted in their indigenous cultural features to create polyphonic texts that represent the spectrum of identity and the post-colonial culture of the African woman. One of these strategies is named (re)membrance by Holloway through which myth, memory, and historical events are inscribed in the narrative to create a discourse which challenges both discourses of patriarchy and colonialism. The present article studies the significance of (re)membrance in Purple Hibiscus to represent the effect of the indigenous Igbo culture in the transition of a teen-aged girl to adulthood. Adichie shows that the identity of the African woman is a spectrum of various cultural elements of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-independence periods.