Zanān-i Dāstān'nivīs-i Āfrīqā (Dāstān'hā-yi Kūtāh): Persian 2024

In general, African literature has an exceptional character, because it not only represents the countless diversity of peoples, cultures, rituals and traditions in this continent, but also carries the heavy burden of painful wounds that decades of superiority and colonial rule have imposed on Africans. African fiction can be historically divided into three parts: pre-colonial literature, colonial literature and post-colonial literature. In the meantime, in the past, some African societies were considered matriarchal societies and women were respected and had a prominent position in them, and even in some areas there was no difference between women and men. But with the introduction of western education, culture and religion, this position was disturbed and women were placed in a lower position. In the 1950s-1960s, a very limited number of women storytellers appeared in the literary scene of African countries, who, like male storytellers, often took their subjects and themes from the social struggle of the time. However, at the end of the 20th century, African women were finally able to break the silence and make their voices heard. They spoke about the suffering of being a woman in slavery and family violence, and wrote about the poverty and oppression that was inflicted on women by men, and about the injustice and violated rights. In this book, thirty very readable stories of women writers from different African countries have been collected and translated and made available to Iranians and Persian speakers.