This thesis is concerned with the concepts of exile, trauma, and nostalgia and how they all come together to create a sense of culture shock that the subjects of my thesis encountered. Azar Nafisi, Nahid Rachlin, Tara Bahrampour, and Azadeh Moaveni, are all Iranian-American authors, and despite their different life experiences and ages, they all encountered culture shock as it related to male-female relations, Iranian gender norms and issues of sex and sexuality and treatments and views of the female body as it relates to reproduction. / text

Notre ambition est de rendre compte de l’évolution contemporaine des rapports sociaux de sexe en Iran en nous appuyant sur l’étude de la représentation que les femmes iraniennes ont de leurs familiaux et sociaux pour préciser les différents types de conceptions du rôle de la femme et les différents aspirations que nous pouvons trouver aujourd’hui chez les femmes en Iran. Notre idée a été de croiser des entretiens qui rendent compte de la diversité des visions de la femme par les femmes iraniennes. Elles ne sont pas toutes d’accord entre elles, et leur discours et parfois décalé avec les données statistiques, les études historiques et économiques disponibles. Mais grâce à eux, nous pourrons dresser un portrait de la vision de la femme par les femmes iraniennes / Our ambition is to study : The evolution of contemporary gender relations in Iran based on the study of representation that Iranian women have of their family and social roles. It is a question of women belonging to different generations and different social backgrounds to specify different types of conceptions of the role of women and the different aspirations that we can find today among women in Iran. Our idea was to analyse the ideas of women that reflect the diversity of visions of women by Iranian women. They do not all agree with each other, and their speech is sometimes shifted with statistics, historical and economic studies available. But thanks to them , we can represent a picture of the point of view of women by Iranian women

The dissertation Magical Realism in Persian and Saudi Narrative Writing views as essential the assumption that the phenomenon of magical realism is not restricted solely to the cultures with colonial legacy, but is transferable to literary works created under systematic and systemic violence anywhere in the world. Previous research of the dissertation's author proved the existence of parallels in the dynamics of sociopolitical development of Iran and Saudi Arabia in the 20th century, foremost in the power relation of the states to their citizens and in the status of women in the society, while there was a strong tendency towards institutionalization of the traditional patriarchal, androcentric and misogynic societal paradigms since the second half of the 20th century. In the last thirty years, women have countered this situation through increased literary activity that has turned out to be an important means of self-fulfillment and emancipation. The fact that some of the most significant Iranian and Saudi women writers use magical realism directed the research to examination of this concept's relevance for the Persian and Saudi narrative writing, inquiry into the reflection of the gender issues and their comparison in both literatures. A detailed case study of two works, each from one country, led...