Endurance : Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World /

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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Main Author: Pillen, Alex (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Kurdish

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Brill Kurdish Studies ; 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Call Number: BP172

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.