Endurance : Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World /
In Endurance , Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such uniqueness. When...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:
English
Kurdish
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2024.
سلاسل:
Brill Kurdish Studies ;
1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
الموضوعات:
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: BP172
| الملخص: | In Endurance , Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such uniqueness. When a culture is under siege and many have lost a former way of life it may not be clear how a society looks itself in the mirror, finds its reflection. Alex Pillen's portrayal of Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World locates such lines of reflection within everyday language. The fear of a random geopolitical pair of dice is global, a fear to be honed when reading this account of uniqueness in the face of totalising loss |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9789004709676 |