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...
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2024.
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Brill Kurdish Studies ;
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Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Transcripts -- Note on the Kurdish Alphabet (Kurmanji) -- 1 Waking Up-Alone -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Speaking Kurdish -- 3 A Living Dictionary -- 4 Approach -- 5 Chapter Outline -- 2 Reality's Linguistic Shape-Evidential Texture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Face of Cruelty -- 3 Evidential Finesse -- 4 A Mood Too -- 5 The Confirmation of Reality -- 3 Precision and Autonymy-Direct Quotation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Quotation -- 3 Rhythmic Flow -- 4 Subtle Patterns -- 5 Autonymy -- 6 On Exactitude -- 4 Like I Say-Often -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Words That Only Go Half-Way -- 3 Like I Say -- 4 Solidity -- 5 Lived Uniqueness -- 5 A Space Of One's Own In Language-The Reflexive Pronoun -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Belongs to Oneself -- 3 A Sense of Self, Respect and the Divine -- 4 A Space of One's Own -- 6 A Pronoun's Shadow-Being Genuine Without Name -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Segmentary Resonance -- 3 Xwe 's Shadow -- 4 The Ban on X and W -- 7 Acoustic Ambiguity-The Intonation Of Painful Injustice -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mournful Tones -- 3 An Invitation to Listen -- 4 Tonal Intertextuality -- 5 Coda -- 8 The Endurance Of Second-Hand Reality-Conclusion -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Enduring Keynotes -- 3 Second-Hand -- 4 Singularity -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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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