Jihad of Explanation in Minimal Poetic Style: Transtextual Analysis of Gholamreza Kafi’s Short Poems

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1 Assistant Professor of English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Ashrafi Esfahani ''s University

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Minimal poems do have specific share in contemporary resistance literature as they revolve round three main pivots of reminding, interrogation and regret in the way of ‘Explanation Jihad’. Kafi has created short poems in line with the principles of minimalism such as limited density, realism and simplicity which mark his skill in this new poetic style. This study aims at analyzing Gholamreza Kafi’s Taranakha (2005) and Passenger of the Next Station (2017) within the framework of Gerard Genette’s theory of transtextuality. It seeks to determine the role of transtextual relations in promoting ‘Jihad of Explanation’.This study is conducted by using descriptive-analytic methodology. Analysis of data is made by using SPSS software. The frequencies of transtextual types and promoting components of ‘Jihad of Explanation’ are determined through Chi-square results.The findings indicate that “architextuality” and “time-consciousness” have the highest frequency and percentage among transtextual types and promoting components of Jihad of Explanation. There is a meaningful relation between them.Resistance literature is meaning-based and its content may appear in any framework. In Taranakha (2005) and Passenger of the Next Station(2017) Gholamreza Kafi has chosen free style for foregrounding the promoting components of ‘Explanation Jihad’ such as “time-consciousness” and “morality” by means of linguistic techniques such as ”Lexical Play”. These impressive and meaningful short poems depict didactic and lovely aspects which have architextual relationship with Khorasani and Hindi styles and set new horizons of genuine reality before the readers’ eyes.

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Journal of Poetry Studies (boostan Adab)

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Available Online from 06 July 2024

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