An Anthropological Reflection on Discursive Meanings of “Shahre-e- Ghese”(Lit. The City of Stories) Performance Composed by Bizhan Mofid

Criticism of modernization and urbanization includes one of discursive approaches produced by artistic and literary works In Pahlavi era. Thiscriticism that is present in a wide range of meaning systems of philosophical, artistic/ literary works, contends rural purity and innocence versus aliened and polluted cultures of modernized cities. One concrete example of this works, whose influence has remained up to now, is the City of Tales performance and play, composed by BijanMofid. This artistic/ literary work is embedded in Iranian people collective and contemporary memory.
 As such this work depicts an inter / multi-generational work that transcends time of its composition. This article is aimed to scrutinize discursive system and meaning of this play and draw a comparison between given play and other works that show a same discursive content and background of creation. It seems a same discursive meaning can be observed as the result of an inter-textual and interactional relationship between Iranian intellectuality and philosophical utterances and literary/artistic expressions through social context and backgrounds.