The Representation of Enemy in the Memoirs of a Woman in Captivity: A Case Study of the Book I Am Alive

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SOLEIMANI AREZOU; SASANI FARHAD; PAKATCHI AHMAD

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Journal: LANGUAGE RELATED RESEARCH (COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH) Year:2020 | Volume:11 | Issue:4 (58) Page(s): 445-475

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The Representation of Enemy in the Memoirs of a Woman in Captivity: A Case Study of the Book I Am Alive

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SOLEIMANI AREZOU | SASANI FARHAD | PAKATCHI AHMAD | Issue Writer Certificate

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War

Enemy

Captivity

Woman

Iran

Iraq

Abstract

This research is an attempt to represent the Enemy in a Woman's self-portrait memoirs about Iraq’ s War against Iran. Years after, those who were involved in the War have an image of an Enemy which is different from the mental and cultural boundaries of those who didn’ t experience War. Besides, the point of view of a Woman gives a different image of the Enemy. Therefore, to depict the representation of this Enemy, the book "I Am Alive" by "Masoumeh Abad" was selected. This book is written directly by the person who was engaged in War and the text is not influenced by any possible chronologist or diarist helping writing the text; hence, it is considered a direct and firsthand text. By applying Lotman’ s cultural semiotic theory, Echo’ s theory of inventing Enemy and the semiotic square of Greimas the text was analyzed. Study of the text showed that polarization, delineation and making an ideological Enemy has been used to represent the Enemy. The form of the Enemy and the amount of hostility in this text are not fixed. The writer allocates different degrees of hostility to enemies, and we see a continuum of Enemy. In some cases, as circumstances require, such as the perceived danger or helplessness, Enemy is considered an insider...

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SOLEIMANI, AREZOU, SASANI, FARHAD, & PAKATCHI, AHMAD. (2020). The Representation of Enemy in the Memoirs of a Woman in Captivity: A Case Study of the Book I Am Alive. LANGUAGE RELATED RESEARCH (COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH), 11(4 (58) ), 445-475. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/957228/en

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SOLEIMANI AREZOU, SASANI FARHAD, PAKATCHI AHMAD. The Representation of Enemy in the Memoirs of a Woman in Captivity: A Case Study of the Book I Am Alive. LANGUAGE RELATED RESEARCH (COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH)[Internet]. 2020;11(4 (58) ):445-475. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/957228/en

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AREZOU SOLEIMANI, FARHAD SASANI, and AHMAD PAKATCHI, “The Representation of Enemy in the Memoirs of a Woman in Captivity: A Case Study of the Book I Am Alive,” LANGUAGE RELATED RESEARCH (COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH), vol. 11, no. 4 (58) , pp. 445–475, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/957228/en

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