نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
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Objective: This study, adopting a comparative approach, examines female identity and the maternal role in post-revolution children’s maternal poetry. It elucidates how “being a woman” as a lived experience and “being a mother” as a social role are reflected within the maternal discourse of this period.
Method: The present study is grounded in Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis and employs in-depth qualitative analysis. Within this framework, the maternal poems of two female poets from two different post-revolution generations Shokouh Qasemnia (early generation) and Zahra Mousavi (later generation) are analyzed at three levels: text, discursive practice, and social context. The statistical population includes all poetic works of these two poets in the field of children’s poetry after the revolution. From among these works, the collections “Elagheh ba To Ghahram,” “Bazi dar Hammam,” “Hassani,” and “Nokhodiha” by Qasemnia, and “Darya,” “Zamin be Man Goft Chi Goft?” and “Seda‑ye Chi Bud?” by Mousavi were purposively selected based on containing the highest number of maternal poems.
Results: The results indicate that in the early post-revolution period, the dominant maternal discourse was grounded in role‑centeredness and identity erasure, and the representation of women was largely confined to the maternal role. However, in later periods, elements of female identity gradually entered the maternal discourse, leading to the emergence of a discursive tension between “being a woman” and “being a mother.”
Conclusions: This transformation has led to the prominence of individual concerns of women poets alongside maternal responsibilities in the works of the newer generation. As a result, the relationship between female identity and the maternal role has shifted from a one‑dimensional, coexistence‑based model to a dynamic and analytically meaningful domain.
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