Internal orients : literary representations of colonial modernity and the Kurdish 'other' in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq / Hawzhen Rashadaddin Ahmed

By:

Ahmed, Hawzhen

Language: English Series: Kurdish People, History and Politics Ser, v. 3Publication details: Peter Lang, New York, 2022Edition: 1st editionISBN:

9781433188572

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DDC classification:

809.3935 AHM

Summary: This book interrogates the polarizing ideology of nationhood which underpins these nation-states' modernity and explores how the Kurds are inferiorized; it examines the ways in which Kurdish literary characters are oppressed and liquidated by means of the inhumane laws of state sovereignty and the ways in which they are rendered homeless within and beyond these countries; and it explores literary depictions of nationalist patriarchy, which exploits women in general and Kurdish women in particular. Scholars, researchers and lecturers could use the book. Plus, the book is useful for institutional and personal libraries. Postcolonial, cultural studies, Middle Eastern studies, and literary studies courses could use the book

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Reference	Anna Centenary Library 4TH FLOOR, B WING	809.3935 AHM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	662719

This book interrogates the polarizing ideology of nationhood which underpins these nation-states' modernity and explores how the Kurds are inferiorized; it examines the ways in which Kurdish literary characters are oppressed and liquidated by means of the inhumane laws of state sovereignty and the ways in which they are rendered homeless within and beyond these countries; and it explores literary depictions of nationalist patriarchy, which exploits women in general and Kurdish women in particular. Scholars, researchers and lecturers could use the book. Plus, the book is useful for institutional and personal libraries. Postcolonial, cultural studies, Middle Eastern studies, and literary studies courses could use the book

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Internal orients : literary representations of colonial modernity and the Kurdish 'other' in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq / Hawzhen Rashadaddin Ahmed

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