Investigating Forms of Dialogism in Two Feminine Novels by Pirzad and Mosteghanemi

Based on dialogism and according to the concept of otherness in Bakhtin's theories, the originality of a novel lies in its Heteroglossia; thus, the language of novel has not only a dialogic interaction with other languages that have originated in diverse social ideologies; but also an intertextual relationship with the language of other texts that have found their way into the novel. Therefore, female authors in their feminine writing create a double-voiced discourse and expose a feminine voice through Heteroglossia. The present paper investigates the manifestations of dialogism in I’ll turn off the lights by Zoya Pirzad and Memory in the Flesh by Ahlam Mosteghanemi with a descriptive-analytic approach based on the American school of comparative literature. Despite differences in their narrative strategies, these two authors, in their feminine writing, pay much attention to the issue of language and its place in the novel and based on their own stylistic features, represent various forms of other languages in their novels differently; thence, the double-voiced discourse represents the view of feminine authors at three different levels. While Pirzad pays much attention to the linguistic failure of hegemony in literature and the creation of a heterogeneous world of language, Mosteghanemi casts a critical look at the issue of gender.