چکیده:
Fictional literature has experiencedan increasing and stunning growth
of women writers in the past two decades. In terms of quality and quantity, the
increase was to the extent that nowadays women’s names are mentioned sometimes
even more than men’s amongthe distinguished writers ofcontemporary Iranian
literature. On the other hand, these authors have often chosen the novel as
their main literary form. From the sociological view of novel and of critics such as
George Lukacs, the growth of women in fiction writingsmake sense in the context
of social and cultural developments of contemporary Iran,finding ways to pass the
society toward modernity. In fact in this paper we assume that this unprecedented
growth is due to the general conditions dominant over the intellectual and social
environment of Iran and the transition of the society from traditional to amodern
one; and amongother important factors regarding modernity, in this paper individuality
is considered as the main element whose formation and evolutionthrough the
history of modernity in Iran, has eventually led to a phenomenon we face today,
i.e. the dramatic growth of female writers. In other words, individuality or female
individuation is the factor that has moved its way inspite of various political, cultural
and social changes, and brought along other results which led to the stunning
emergence of women in writing.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Novel, the Literary Form of the Modern World As mentioned, Iranian women in contemporary literature espe- cially in the recent two decades, have been successful, mostly in the area of fiction and prose writing.
In ‘Theory of Novel’, which is considered as an innovative reflection upon the relationship between society and literary work in its International Journal of Women’s Research Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2013 time; Lukacs repeatedly emphasizes that novel is a literary form which has replaced epic and drama, and is a reflection of the modern world (Lukacs, 2002) which is an enchanted world, full of anxiety where the traditional values of the society suf- fer crisis, and belief in them has been weakened or gone, and consequently its heroines are astonished and stunned.
Anyway the International Journal of Women’s Research Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2013 present situation of female writers in recent years depicts that the development of their individuality and their understanding of the changes in the contemporary society in Iran are the changes whose fruit for women is the product of more than a century of efforts and hard works.
experience had not found its place in the Persian literature yet, until the modern era especially when the social and political events took place in the 19th century AD when women began their movements toward individuality, recycling their own identity and attitude to the world from an individual point of view which is not an imitation; a movement which is shown slowly and delayed in literature and accord- ing to the comment emphasized in this paper, only a few decades have passed from its realization."