zahra ostadzadeh; leila rezaei; ABAS JAHEDJAH
Abstract
Manūchihr Ātashī, the contemporary poet who passed through Nimai' poetry and turned into modernist experimentations, registered himself as a modern contemporary Persian poet. Nevertheless, ...
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Manūchihr Ātashī, the contemporary poet who passed through Nimai' poetry and turned into modernist experimentations, registered himself as a modern contemporary Persian poet. Nevertheless, an examination of his poetry—particularly his last collection of poems, Return into Stone—reveals that this poet has adopted postmodern features in some of his historical narrative poems and has created metafictional historiographies. In this paper, the expanse of history in Ātashī's poetry is highlighted, then the main features of metafictional historiography, taken from the theories of Linda Hutcheon, Brian McHale, and Hayden White, are delineated; eleven poems are extracted from Return into Stone and analyzed according to the five parameters of metafictional historiography. Postmodern parameters can be listed as: anachronism, critique of rationalism, denial of history as a goal-oriented and purposeful movement, challenging historical truth, satire and irony. The findings of the research reveal Ātashī's postmodern approach and the efforts he put into the creation of metafictional historiography within the genre of poetry.
Keywords: Manūchihr Ātashī, Postmodernism, Metafictional Historiography, History, Narrative
