Critique and Analysis of Moniru Ravanipour’s Ecological Story “Ahle Ghargh” with a Look at the Discourse of Power

Abstract

Ecological critique is the study of the relationship between literature and the natural world, the origins of which are the emergence of new ideas in anthropology and environmental issues that humanist discourses play an important role in their emergence. In the story of Moniru Ravanipour’s Ahle Ghargh, the relationships of the characters such as Kheyjo, Zayer Ahmad Hakim, Mah Jamal, Madine, and Mobor men with the environment are examined in this article to show how power relations at different levels of this story are effective based on Foucault's ideas. In this story, Kheyjo, Mah Jamal, Madine, and Zayer Ahmad Hakim have a close relationship with nature as well as a transcendental view of the earth that challenges the dominant discourse of the age, philosophical humanism; the humanism in which more attention is paid to human thought and looks at man and nature through the eyes of an element or object. This is why Foucault in the age of modernity sees the presence of man in the scene of the illustration of thought and consciousness, and argues that empirical combinations should be applied in a place other than the absolute rule of "I think". In this article, considering the importance and impact of discourses in the production of the literary text, the aim was to examine the story in question with a descriptive-analytical method of the human relationship with the environment and the impact of different discourses that play an effective role in exercising power to inform man about his behavior with the environment and to reveal his relationship with nature.

Keywords

• ecological criticism
• moniru ravanipour
• ahle ghargh
• power discourse
• foucault