Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature / / ed. by Alireza Korangy, Mahlagha Mortezaee.

Literature, images, and metaphor are often where most of a nation’s history are embedded. A study of modern Kurdish literature highlights a fealty to a rich literary past and a rich source of historiography. The articles in this volume address many facets of the literary in the Kurdish world: prover...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studies on Modern Orient ; 39
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 213 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Shared Ownership and Kurdish Folklore
  • Resist Diyarbakır, Resist: Exploring Kurdish Literary Intelligentsia in Diyarbakır
  • Tales of Woe, Ruthless Foes, and Patriotic Heroes: A Historical-Literary Study of Kurdish (Dis)unity in the Early Modern Era
  • Sherko Bekas and the Emergence of Postnational Kurdish Literature
  • Re-evaluation of the Yārsān Texts and its Impact on Kurdish Literature
  • Kurdish Music as Literature: Some Historical Considerations
  • Kurdish Women’s Feminist Poetry: Developing a Voice in Southern Kurdistan and the Diaspora
  • Kurdish Women in Fiction and a History of Violence, Displacement, and Migration
  • General Index