$Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl$

Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl

This article problematises the issue of history through the symbolic analysis of the woman in Sadegh Hedayat's Blind Owl as a metaphorical depiction of Iran. This article attempts to show how the various historical invasions led to the identity dilemma that produced people with instable, fractu...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Khalil Mahmoodi, Shanthini Pillai, Raihana , M.M
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6120/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6120/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6120/1/Akademika_82%282%29Chap_5-locked.pdf

id	ukm-6120
recordtype	eprints
spelling	ukm-61202013-04-17T04:18:30Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6120/ Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl Khalil Mahmoodi, Shanthini Pillai, Raihana , M.M This article problematises the issue of history through the symbolic analysis of the woman in Sadegh Hedayat's Blind Owl as a metaphorical depiction of Iran. This article attempts to show how the various historical invasions led to the identity dilemma that produced people with instable, fractured identity and nameless individuals, like the narrator of the story. It tries to reveal the lament of the author for the psycho-historic social and political changes which changed the cultural discourses in his society, from what he considers as a pure one represented in the ethereal girl to an impure and polluted one objectified in the configuration of the whore, due to the different invasions and occupation of Iran, in the previous ages as the sources of the lack of identity in his age. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6120/1/Akademika_82%282%29Chap_5-locked.pdf Khalil Mahmoodi, and Shanthini Pillai, and Raihana , M.M (2012) Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl. AKADEMIKA, 82 (2). pp. 45-54. ISSN 0126-5008 http://www.ukm.my/penerbit/jademik.html
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	Universiti Kebangasaan Malaysia
building	UKM Institutional Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
description	This article problematises the issue of history through the symbolic analysis of the woman in Sadegh Hedayat's Blind Owl as a metaphorical depiction of Iran. This article attempts to show how the various historical invasions led to the identity dilemma that produced people with instable, fractured identity and nameless individuals, like the narrator of the story. It tries to reveal the lament of the author for the psycho-historic social and political changes which changed the cultural discourses in his society, from what he considers as a pure one represented in the ethereal girl to an impure and polluted one objectified in the configuration of the whore, due to the different invasions and occupation of Iran, in the previous ages as the sources of the lack of identity in his age.
format	Article
author	Khalil Mahmoodi, Shanthini Pillai, Raihana , M.M
spellingShingle	Khalil Mahmoodi, Shanthini Pillai, Raihana , M.M Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl
author_facet	Khalil Mahmoodi, Shanthini Pillai, Raihana , M.M
author_sort	Khalil Mahmoodi,
title	Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl
title_short	Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl
title_full	Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl
title_fullStr	Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl
title_full_unstemmed	Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl
title_sort	historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in sadegh hedayat's blind owl
publisher	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2012
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6120/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6120/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6120/1/Akademika_82%282%29Chap_5-locked.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T19:46:00Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T19:46:00Z
_version_	1777405904154525696

Historical hegemony: fractured identity and mono-vocalization in Sadegh Hedayat's blind owl

Similar Items