Representation of War from the Perspective of the Martyr Devotees' Spouses in the Sacred Defense Fiction Literature; the Study of "Now Shukran"

In addition to the hardships suffered by women, veterans of the sacred defense can declare the history of the resistance, sacrifice, and the freedom of warriors on the battlefields, due to the direct and indirect experience of the holy defense era. This research seeks to examine the representation. The war is from the perspective of the martyr devotees' spouses in the sacred defense fiction literature. Meanwhile, the six-part series of "Now Shokran" published by Fatah narration, which deals with the story of life, hardships and sacrifices of the martyr devotees by their wives, selected as a targeted sample. They have been analyzed by method of content analysis with deductive approach. Therefore, the review of this collection can determine the way of representing war and sacred defense to a feminine narrative versus other men's stories of war. The results have represented the categories of identity, social relations, values ​​and social norms, war and post-war period. In this collection, the story has been arranged and the war has had a significant impact on the lives of veterans' wives, but they still have lifestyles with many problems in their normal lives and patiently accompany their wife during the war and after that. In the series, the story of war was a realm of empathy. People, in sympathy with their neighbors, prevented wedding for their children, women were consistent with their husbands with no plaining. The dominant identity for warriors and their husbands and families was the identity based on morale-based revolution thinking and sacrifice.