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This paper explores how Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent reclaims the female voice as a form of resistance against patriarchal oppression. By reimagining the biblical story of Dinah, Diamant shifts the focus to women’s experiences, highlighting their strength, solidarity, and resilience in a male-dominated world. The novel challenges traditional gender roles and religious narratives, offering a feminist perspective on biblical women. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Additionally, this paper explores how storytelling functions as a tool of empowerment within the novel, allowing women to reclaim their histories and reshape their identities. By centering female narratives that have been historically overlooked or silenced, The Red Tent not only reinterprets biblical traditions but also fosters a dialogue on the significance of women’s collective memory and oral traditions. Furthermore, the analysis considers how the novel’s depiction of sisterhood and shared rituals subverts patriarchal structures, illustrating the power of female agency in redefining cultural and religious legacies. The paper examines how women in the novel navigate societal expectations while asserting their identities. Through themes of midwifery, female bonding, and religious conflict, The Red Tent creates a space where women’s voices and stories are celebrated, challenging the marginalization of women in both historical and religious contexts.

Extensive interest in the field of comparative literary studies emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century with the main focus of comparing similarities in perspectives and variations in beliefs which congregate or rupture world views, representing human thought. It is the objective of the present study to analyze and compare the components which yield to the New Historical analysis of two literary pieces to discover the existing nuances related to the artists’ socio-cultural milieu and to illustrate how this mirrors personality development in their poetry. For this means, two poems have been chosen: “I Am a Black Woman” from Mari Evans, a contemporary African-American poetess, and “Farewell” from Forough Farrokhzad, the influential, modernist Iranian artist. Results will indicate how the views of the two poets differ from one another in regard to the relationship between identity formation and the role that episteme plays in this process. Inevitably, there will be concern about the influence of zeitgeist in imagery production since literary work is the doings of historical-socio-cultural discourses as much as creative imagination.

This study evaluates the economic capital levels for Iranian banks and analyzes their behavior under various macroeconomic shocks by developing a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model that incorporates banking sector heterogeneity and macroeconomic shock transmission mechanisms. A comprehensive DSGE framework was constructed and calibrated using Iranian macroeconomic and banking data. The model implementation utilized Dynare software to analyze impulse response functions across technology, liquidity, and monetary policy shock scenarios, with particular emphasis on capital adequacy dynamics, bank bankruptcy and exit possibilities, and effects on economic welfare and financial stability. Simulation results indicate that current capital levels of Iranian banks are insufficient for achieving financial stability and welfare maximization, requiring increases to higher levels, that exceeding Basel III regulatory minimums to maintain adequate resilience against macroeconomic volatility and prevent bank bankruptcy and exit. Technology shocks generate expansionary effects on output, consumption, and investment variables while improving economic welfare, whereas liquidity shocks create contractionary pressures reducing these key economic indicators and welfare levels. Interest rate shocks produce moderate and largely temporary effects across macroeconomic variables, with limited long-term impact on economic welfare and minimal influence on bank bankruptcy probability. The shock analyses demonstrate the critical importance of macroeconomic conditions in bank capital management decisions, economic welfare preservation, and bank exit prevention, with liquidity shocks showing the most substantial explanatory power for capital requirement variations. The study contributes to both theoretical understanding and practical application by extending DSGE modeling to incorporate banking sector capital dynamics, bankruptcy mechanisms, and welfare effects within an emerging market context, thereby offering a more comprehensive framework for economic capital determination. Our findings suggest that Iranian banks need to maintain higher capital levels to provide adequate stability and risk absorption capacity for Iranian banks under diverse economic shock conditions.