A postcolonial/decolonial approach to “Wandering Island” Novel by Simin Dāneshvar 

Introduction

Writing as a process of thinking cannot be outside of the power system. The disciplines of postcolonial studies have contributed in important ways to rethink how we understand the notion of literature today. A literary text is valuable not only for the text and words but also for its portrayal of representative minority experience and strategies of resistance. Postcolonial literature has been classified into two main areas. Some of these works were written by the colonizers. Most of it was written by the colonized people or the most colonized nations. in other words, the ability to narrate or prevent other narratives from forming and emerging is critical to culture and imperialism. It is one of the primary links between them. (Robbins et al.,1994).

Simin Dāneshvar (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer, and translator. She was regarded mainly as the first prominent Iranian woman novelist. Simin Dāneshvar published the Wandering Island in 1993. In other words, this novel is a text by an Eastern writer about the orient (in this case, Iran), and the story was written after the Islamic Revolution, but its narrative dates back to before the Revolution in Iran. The story is dedicated to the author’s critical representation of the presence and domination of Western foreigners, the reaction and relationship of different sections of society in the 90 decades in Iran in the face of the West, which indicates the capacity of this story to analyze from a postcolonial/decolonial perspective. In this essay, I want to adopt a postcolonial worldview . 

 

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