Historical Analysis of Women's Ideal World in Folk Tale of Nushafarin Gowhartaj

Document Type : Original Article

10.22103/jic.2024.22966.1294

Abstract

The ideal world of women has been in conflict and challenge with their lived reality since ancient times, This claim is evidenced by texts such as myths and folk tales as well as historical texts. People's mentality is manifested as a historical category in legends and folk tales. The presence of women outside the feminine realm and in challenge with the conventional and rigid discourses indicates that women have not sought in their dream world the socio-cultural subjection in which they themselves have played a part. The folk tale of Nushafarin Gowhartaj, remaining from the Qajar period presents a picture of the ideal world of women and, in contrast to the traditional-cultural discourses, favors love, affection, and voluntary marriage. Taking into account the importance of reading the world of women in folk tales and adopting a historical background approach toward their lived and historical conditions, this study has described the world of women in the said folk tale and provided an ideological analysis of it. In fact, with a meaningful approach, the social and cultural reality has been told in layers to make it easier to understand the ideal world of women in the context of their lived experience. Despite their connection with the socio-cultural discourses, women set aside in this folk tale some restrictions in the category of marriage and spare no pains looking for their favorite men and a romantic marriage.


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