Zan in “The Blue Intellect”: The Emblem of Emancipation: The Evolution of Female Characters In Parsipur’s Magical Realism Writings.

In the interest of complicating existing conclusions about the nature of gender and genre in Parsipur’s novels, this study examines the female characters/heroines from the three novels of “Tuba and the Meaning of the Night” “Women without Men” and “The Blue Intellect” respectively. Via this examination, this article illustrates the way in The Blue Intellect, Zan (The Woman) has reached a state of emancipation which leads to a new resolution for women’s’ search for liberation. Women’s’ search for emancipation, which I argue is one of the main themes in Parsipur’s novels has reached its absolute state in Blue Intellect. This talk concentrates on the co-evolution of the female characters from the previous novels to show that Zan -the heroine in The Blue Intellect- is the emblem of all the female characters of Parsipur in a more complete and refined form without featuring a ethereal form, or super natural power. Is the heroine of the “The Blue Intellect” the emancipated, woman who has evolved in her journey and can appear just as Zan ?