Signs of Resistance: Developing Iranian Women’s Memoirs
Abstract
This article takes into account that during the last decade, more than ever, Iranian women memoirists developed writing their life stories to convey their message to a wider public. In a society where ‘keep face’, ‘protect appearance’ and many more cultural proverbs are preventive forces on the way of modest female memoirists, it is crucial to examine what has assisted them to successfully assert themselves and unveil their voice. In this regard, to either align to the socially accepted movement of the time or invent new modes of narrative was promising for them. Most women's memoirists chose to move with the Movement of Memory-Writing in Iran which involves the narrators’ memoirs related to the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. Iranian women memoirists showed great fame and success in writing the genre. Moreover, the employment of humor genre in memoirs is another sign of resistance in Iranian women writing.
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