Int.J.Eng.Lang.Lit & Trans.Studies Vol.2.Issue. 3.2015 (July-Sep) 506 FATEMEH MOZAFFARI ABSTRACT Edward Said, an outstanding figure in post-colonial area points out that the West and the East are always in a kind of battle. European powers regard themselves as a model having knowledge and strength to manage and run the Eastern societies, the others. Europeans see the others as people or community that they can shape and impose their own language, values and culture on. As an Iranian author and translator, Simin Daneshvar illustrated vividly the impact of British colonialism on the tribal life in Shiraz during the Second World War. Moreover she depicted Iranian women and their lives in the patriarchal Iran, in her novel Suvashun. Lack of freedom of speech and inferiority of the colonized and cultural blend under the domain of colonizer power are issues discussed in Suvashun by Simin Daneshvar. Postcolonial study of this book represents communities and the people affected by the imposition of different cultures, religions and belief which were imposed on them by the dominating powers. Key words: Post Colonialism, Patriarchy, Exploitation ©KY PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION Post colonial study defines a cultural relation between the colonizer and the colonized. It’s better to say that it is a battle between the colonizer and the colonized in order to impose or to inject the newly arrived culture in which the colonizer is almost the winner of this battle and is more likely to become the dominator. Throughout the history, we have seen the West as the colonizer and many African or Asian countries as the colonized. Theories and approaches concentrate on the writings of colonized cultures in different parts of the world. As Bressler says that postcolonial “theories investigate what happens when two cultures clash and when one of them, with its accessory ideology, empowers and deems itself superior to the other” ( Bressler, 236). In a colony, when the colonizer culture dominates the native culture, the colonized people feel the lack of culture, and consequently after a while they will face lack of identity. The colonizer culture prevail the native culture, they see native people as subhuman or savages and this leads to their inferiority, so they must be excluded from position of power. This is possible only through destroying the identity of the colonized people. Those without identity are most likely to become what the colonizer desires. Daneshvar published Suvashun, the first novel from a woman's perspective written by an Iranian woman in 1969. Her masterpiece novel Suvashun is considered the climax of Persian novel writing, narrating the sufferings of Iranian people during World War II. It shows how Iran was exploited during the period. It talks Vol.2. Issue 3., 2015 (July-Sept.) POST COLONIAL IRAN: A STUDY OF SIMIN DANESHVAR’S SUVASHUN FATEMEH MOZAFFARI Assistant Professor, Department of General Courses, University of Shahrood, Iran Email: mozafari.f@shahroodut.ac.ir INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES (IJELR) A QUARTERLY, INDEXED, REFEREED AND PEER REVIEWED OPEN ACCESS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL http://www.ijelr.in RESEARCH ARTICLE FATEMEH MOZAFFARI