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Shahriyar Mandanipur, In Between Modernism and Post-Modernist Ways of Writing
Shahriyar Mandanipur, In Between Modernism and Post-Modernist Ways of Writing

Author(s): Claus Valling Pedersen
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Short Story, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: modernism; post-modernism; narrative techniques in Shahriyar Mandanipur’s short stories; truth and reality as relative values embedded in narratives;

Summary/Abstract: This article aims at showing that Shahriyar Mandanipur employs narrative techniques in his short stories that look like those one finds in post-modernist fiction, but that these narrative techniques are rooted in a modernist world view. There is a truth and a reality in Mandanipur’s short stories – contrary to the post-modern belief – but in Mandanipur’s short stories this truth and this reality is always defined by a narrative and a narrator. Hence one must talk about different angles on truth and reality as demonstrated by the following analysis of Shahriyar Mandanipur’s short story Shatter the Stone Tooth.

  • Issue Year: 14/2019
  • Issue No: Spec. Iss.
  • Page Range: 187-196
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English