Critical Feminist Discourse and Authorial Identity in Contemporary Women’s Writers: Woolf, Daneshvar, and Farrokhzad

Abstract

Literature and culture are a propitious way to connect human life and the world and feminism is a universal affair and not to be limited to a society, geographical region, or time. Comparative literature is also a sphere of literary study in which the works of two/more two writers from different languages and nationalities are compared with one another and acts as a social, cultural, and literary brigade and cycle. This article explores feminism and femininity with an image of authorial identity in three selected modern women writers’ works: Virginia Woolf, Simin Daneshvar, and Forough Farrokhzad from the schools of thought and points of view, which affected the writers’ thoughts. The survey and analysis of their works report that the sharing point between feministic literature and the schools of thought lies in the attempt to revive women’s rights, portray women’s oppression, and introduce their innocence as well as their authorial identity and position in a patriarchal system regarding the sort of approach to human and life. The present study extends a synthesis of feminism and realism techniques to investigate women’s status within these women’s writings. The results show an independent authorial identity, feminine attitudes, realist perspective, existentialist thoughts and human-centered view in a patriarchal society are authorial recycling forms among Daneshvar, Farrokhzad, and Woolf’s artwork borderless.