New Historicism and Power Relations in Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without my Daughter (1987)
| dc.contributor.author | Ghezal Dahbia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fezzani Cylia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-10T09:33:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-10T09:33:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | 72p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present dissertation analyzes Betty Mahmoody's novel Not Without My Daughter (1987) from a new historicist view. The fundamental objective of this dissertation has been to show how Mahmoody represents Iranian society during Ayatollah Khomeini's regime using some significant and relevant notions of New Historicism. We have chosen Stephan Greenblatt's theory of New Historicism (1980-1990) for its significant ideas. We have also taken some concepts from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) to achieve our goal. We have divided our work into two chapters. The first one has examined the historicity of the text and textuality of history and how they relate to Mahmoody’s story. The second chapter has explored the idea of power and its various manifestations, including subversion and containment. Our study has revealed that Betty Mahmoody through her work reports real like events and makes from historical events a written text, by which we conclude that there is a relationship between the text and history. our study has also revealed that power is used by Khomeini to rule the Iranian people as well as by the male characters to dominate women. On the other side, we have focused on two concepts that are containment and subversion. The latter is depicted through various characters who violated the law while the former is shown in the Ayatollah government that attempted to control its people’s actions. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Littérature et Approches Interdisciplinaires | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/24291 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mouloud Mammeri University | |
| dc.subject | Textuality | |
| dc.subject | Historicity | |
| dc.subject | Power | |
| dc.subject | Physical | |
| dc.subject | Psycological | |
| dc.subject | Panoptican | |
| dc.subject | Subversion | |
| dc.subject | Containment | |
| dc.title | New Historicism and Power Relations in Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without my Daughter (1987) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |