This article offers a hydrofeminist reading of Shokoofeh Azar's The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, employing Astrida Neimanis's theory of watery embodiment to illuminate the novel's magic-realist exploration of trauma, memory, and feminist resistance in post-1979 Iran. By analysing the text's recurrent motifs of water, fluidity, and transformation – particularly through ghostly narration and mermaid metamorphosis – the article demonstrates how Azar's narrative enacts a shared hydrocommons of grief and endurance (Neimanis 2012). The study argues that Azar's imaginative use of water is not merely symbolic but constitutes a feminist epistemology that destabilises binary oppositions and foregrounds relationality, ecological consciousness, and embodied memory. This hydrofeminist approach reveals how the novel's fluid form and content challenge patriarchal violence while envisioning interconnected forms of survival, agency, and hope, offering significant implications for ecofeminist literary criticism and feminist theory. To ensure accessibility, the article clarifies 'hydrocommons' as a shared, intersubjective space in which watery connections create new modes of solidarity and survival, especially for readers new to hydrofeminist discourse.
Mohammad Rahmatullah (Mon,) studied this question.