书目名称 | Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities |
副标题 | The Call of the Cric |
编辑 | Joanna Bocheńska |
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概述 | Presents new topics and offers theoretical approaches which aim to rediscover, rethink, and enrich the field of Kurdish and postcolonial studies.Provides a unique set of perspectives that offer insigh |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict |
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描述 | .Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket. offers insight into little-known aspects of the social and cultural activity and changes taking place in different parts of Kurdistan (Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran), linking different theoretical approaches within a postcolonial perspective. The first chapter presents the book’s approach to postcolonial theory and gives a brief introduction to the historical context of Kurdistan. The second, third and fourth chapters focus on the Kurdish context, examining ethical changes as revealed in Kurdish literary and cinema narratives, the socio-political role of the Kurdish cultural institutions and the practices of countering othering of Kurdish migrants living in Istanbul. The fifth chapter offers an analysis of the nineteenth-century missionary translations of the Bible into the Kurdish language. The sixth chapter examines the formation of Chaldo-Assyrian identity in the context of relations with the Kurds after the overthrow of the Ba’ath regime in 2003. The last chapter investigates the question of the Yezidis’ identity, based on Yezidi oral works and statements about their self-identification.. |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Kurdistan; Kurdish identity; Kurdish Diaspora; Kurdish literature; Kurdish Issue; Kurdish Culture; Kurdish |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93088-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-06584-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-93088-6Series ISSN 2634-6419 Series E-ISSN 2634-6427 |
issn_series | 2634-6419 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |