The Veiled Violence in “The Dog’s Eye”

This paper seeks to investigate the concept of Violence within the area of Diaspora in the collectionof short stories “The Dog’s Eye”. Written by a contemporary short story writer, Alieh Ataei, the seven stories ofthe collection picture the characters who are originally from Afghanistan, go through the agony and anxieties ofinstability of living in Afghanistan and have migrated or been traveling to Iran. The characters are meticulouslyand scrupulously characterized, whose realities of diasporic lives portray a sense of invisible violence. Violencewithin the studies of diaspora, although a cliché, is one of the prevalent concepts which is implicitly or explicitlypresented in the work of Literature in association with the social, historical and psychological, and politicalcontexts. Migration and displacement, naturally, incorporate various levels of violence leading to suffering, abuse,anxiety and trauma. The present research explores the perpetrated violence in the life of characters who, ironicallydespite having the sense of satisfaction, suffer, encounter and are consumed by the plight of displacement and theinstitutionalized terror and fright of the exile. Such emotions which are the legacy of war and conflicts will leadto a life of trauma that breaks down the individuality of the human beings, making him/her a shadow.

کلیدواژه ها:

violence ، displacement ، Afghanistan ، conflicts