An Analysis of Female Identity in Zoya Pirzad’s Novel I Turn Off the Lights

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An Analysis of Female Identity in Zoya Pirzad’s Novel I Turn Off the Lights

Yazarlar:

Serpil Yıldırım

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar:

Fars Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

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Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi Vol.65 Issue 1, pp.297-313

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Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2025

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Türkçe

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2001351562

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2459-0150

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 Today, feminism and attitude towards women are important research topics in sociology studies and different cultural fields. This issue has also been discussed in the field of literature in the last few decades. It is considered a main theme especially in the works of women writers. Zoya Pirzad is one of the important writers of Contemporary Iranian Literature, who gives the main focus of her novel to women in the field of fictional literature and manages to describe the womens world with womens thought and womens pen. Pirzad frequently discusses feminine emotions and experiences with a feminine understanding and attitude in her works. Published in 1380 and the authors first long novel, I Turn Off the Lights, it is one of the womens novels that depicts the womens society and reveals certain thought patterns dominant in society. In this mentioned novel; regardless of ethnicity, class, lifestyle; It has been revealed the pressures that women are subjected to, which are often ignored, their feelings of alienation, loneliness, and their search for identity, from a brand new, feminine perspective. Considering the importance of womens existence in society today, it is essential to examine this novel from a womans perspective and to destroy certain thought patterns about women. In her work, the author by showing a vivid depiction of the labyrinths in the mind and inner world of women, revealed the womans world and the different dimensions of womens identity.Therefore, the main purpose of this research is; in Zoya Pirzads novel I Turn Off the Lights, it is to examine womens struggle for social and individual existence and the different dimensions of her personality that determine her mother, wife, lover and social identities.

 Today, feminism and attitude towards women are important research topics in sociology studies and different cultural fields. This issue has also been discussed in the field of literature in the last few decades. It is considered a main theme especially in the works of women writers. Zoya Pirzad is one of the important writers of Contemporary Iranian Literature, who gives the main focus of her novel to women in the field of fictional literature and manages to describe the womens world with womens thought and womens pen. Pirzad frequently discusses feminine emotions and experiences with a feminine understanding and attitude in her works. Published in 1380 and the authors first long novel, I Turn Off the Lights, it is one of the womens novels that depicts the womens society and reveals certain thought patterns dominant in society. In this mentioned novel; regardless of ethnicity, class, lifestyle; It has been revealed the pressures that women are subjected to, which are often ignored, their feelings of alienation, loneliness, and their search for identity, from a brand new, feminine perspective. Considering the importance of womens existence in society today, it is essential to examine this novel from a womans perspective and to destroy certain thought patterns about women. In her work, the author by showing a vivid depiction of the labyrinths in the mind and inner world of women, revealed the womans world and the different dimensions of womens identity.Therefore, the main purpose of this research is; in Zoya Pirzads novel I Turn Off the Lights, it is to examine womens struggle for social and individual existence and the different dimensions of her personality that determine her mother, wife, lover and social identities.

 Today, feminism and attitude towards women are important research topics in sociology studies and different cultural fields. This issue has also been discussed in the field of literature in the last few decades. It is considered a main theme especially in the works of women writers. Zoya Pirzad is one of the important writers of Contemporary Iranian Literature, who gives the main focus of her novel to women in the field of fictional literature and manages to describe the womens world with womens thought and womens pen. Pirzad frequently discusses feminine emotions and experiences with a feminine understanding and attitude in her works. Published in 1380 and the authors first long novel, I Turn Off the Lights, it is one of the womens novels that depicts the womens society and reveals certain thought patterns dominant in society. In this mentioned novel; regardless of ethnicity, class, lifestyle; It has been revealed the pressures that women are subjected to, which are often ignored, their feelings of alienation, loneliness, and their search for identity, from a brand new, feminine perspective. Considering the importance of womens existence in society today, it is essential to examine this novel from a womans perspective and to destroy certain thought patterns about women. In her work, the author by showing a vivid depiction of the labyrinths in the mind and inner world of women, revealed the womans world and the different dimensions of womens identity.Therefore, the main purpose of this research is; in Zoya Pirzads novel I Turn Off the Lights, it is to examine womens struggle for social and individual existence and the different dimensions of her personality that determine her mother, wife, lover and social identities.

 Günümüzde feminizm ve kadına yönelik tutum sosyoloji çalışmalarında ve farklı kültürel alanlarda önemli araştırma konularındandır. Bu konu son birkaç on yılda edebiyat sahasında da tartışılmaktadır. Özellikle kadın yazarların eserlerinde ana tema olarak kabul edilmektedir. Zoya Pirzad kurgusal edebiyat alanında romanının ana odağını kadına veren, kadın dünyasını, kadın düşüncesi ve kadın kalemiyle anlatmayı başarabilen, Çağdaş İran Edebiyatının önemli yazarlarından biridir. Pirzad, kadınsı anlayış ve tutumla, kadınsal duyguları ve deneyimleri eserlerinde sıkça konu edinir. 1380 yılında basılan ve yazarın ilk uzun romanı olan Işıkları Ben Söndürürüm kadın toplumunu tasvir eden ve toplumda hâkim olan belirli düşünce kalıplarını ortaya koyan kadın romanlarındandır. Adı geçen bu romanda; etnik kökenine, ait olduğu sınıfa, yaşam tarzına bakılmaksızın; kadınların maruz kaldığı, çoğu zaman görmezden gelinen baskıları, ötelenmişlik, yalnızlık duyguları, kimlik arayışları, yepyeni, kadınca bir bakış açısıyla gözler önüne serilmiştir. Bugün toplumda kadın varlığının önemine binaen bu romanın kadın bakış açısıyla incelenmesi ve kadına dair belirli düşünce kalıplarının yıkılması elzemdir. Yazar, eserinde kadının zihin ve iç dünyasındaki labirentlerin canlı tasvirini sunarak, kadının dünyasını kadın kimliğinin farklı boyutlarını ortaya koymuştur. Dolayısıyla bu araştırmanın temel amacı; Zoya Pirzadın Işıkları Ben Söndürürüm adlı romanında kadının toplumsal ve bireysel varoluş mücadelesini ve onun anne, eş, âşık ve toplumsal kimliklerini belirleyen kişiliğinin farklı boyutlarını incelemektir.

Makale detayları

An Analysis of Female Identity in Zoya Pirzad’s Novel I Turn Off the Lights

Yazarlar:

Serpil Yıldırım

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar:

Fars Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi:

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi Vol.65 Issue 1, pp.297-313

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2025

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001351562

pISSN:

2459-0150

Dimension of Existence

Famale Identity

Zoya Pirzad

I Turn Off the LightsVaroluş Boyutu

Kadın Kimliği

Zoya Pirzad

Işıkları Ben Söndürürüm

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Yazarlar: Serpil Yıldırım

Yayıncı: Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar: Fars Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi Vol.65 Issue 1, pp.297-313

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2025

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001351562

pISSN: 2459-0150

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Serpil Yıldırım

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar:

Fars Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi:

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi Vol.65 Issue 1, pp.297-313

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2025

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001351562

pISSN:

2459-0150