A Study of the Status of the Militarism in Simin Daneshvar’s Short Stories

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor, Department of Fassi Language and Literature, Yazd University

10.29252/kavosh.2009.2466

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Undertaking a relative approach and avoiding any kind of absolutism or dualistic attitude, Simin Daneshvar regards the militarism either from the embodiment of respecting law and fighting against crime, or the inexorable executors of decrees and policies of Pahlavi regime, due to their unqualified interdependencies on bureaucracy. However; these policies and commands often stand in opposition to their moral values, assessments and sentiments. Her approach to the presence of the militarism, in her short stories, as the major instruments of governmental power, differs from that of those writers who present them as an impressive stratum in social and political upheavals. From this perspective, Daneshwar sometimes elevates the soldiers to the state of incorruptibility, regarding their actions and operations. As Daneshwar prescribes, the non-humanitarian bureaucracy occasionally contradicts to the soldiers' sentimental and humanitarian discernments.
However, she adheres to the competence among the military that they have the capability to undertake a non-bureaucratic counteraction, whenever they encounter the benefits and expedients of metaclass canonical authority.  

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Journal of Kavoshnameh in Persian Language and Literature
Volume 10, Issue 18
September 2009
Pages 71-96

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