Poetry as An Instrument of Female Liberation in Jasmin Darznik's Novel “Song of A Captive Bird”
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https://doi.org/10.55640/eijps-06-06-09Keywords:
Poetry, female liberation, subaltern theoryAbstract
This article examines how poetry functions as the primary instrument of female liberation in Jasmin Darznik's biographical novel Song of a Captive Bird (2018), which fictionalizes the life of Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad. The study investigates four interconnected functions of poetry in the novel: private self-constitution, psychological transformation, public resistance, and collective empowerment. Drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's subaltern theory and Patricia Waugh's concept of metafiction, the article argues that poetry is not merely a biographical detail or a literary theme but the structural practice through which the protagonist's liberation is enacted. In the world Darznik constructs, writing is not the record of a freedom already achieved — it is the means by which freedom is brought into existence.
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