Kurdish art and identity : verbal art, self-definition and recent history / edited by Alireza Korangy ; foreword by Philip G. Kreyenbroek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korangy, Alireza, editor.

Kreyenbroek, Philip G., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature, Kurdish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 214 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Folklore has been a phenomenon based on nostalgic and autochthonous nuances conveyed with a story-telling technique with a penchant for over-playing and nationalistic pomp and circumstance, often with significant consequences for societal, poetic, and cultural areas. These papers highlight challenges that have an outreaching relationship to the regional, rhetorical, and trans-rhetorical devices and manners in Kurdish folklore, which subscribes to an ironic sense of hope all the while issuing an appeal for a largely unaccomplished nationhood, simultaneously insisting on a linguistic solidarity. In a folkloric literature that has an overarching theory of poetics – perhaps even trans-figurative cognitive poetics due to the multi-faceted nature of its application and the complexity of its linguistic structure – the relationship of man (and less frequently woman) with others takes center stage in many of the folkloric creations. Arts are not figurative representations of the real in the Kurdish world; they are the real.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Contents

Applying the Oral-Formulaic Theory to Mem û Zîn

Mem û Zîn as Court Literature

Cleansing the Galleries: A Museum in the Imagination of Kurdish Diaspora Artists and Activists

From Fairytale Character to Lost Goddess: The Archetypal Representation of Stepmother within Kurdish Folklore

The Impact of the Dengbêjî Tradition on Kurdish Theater in Turkey

Conservatives and Radicals: Ethnicity and Politics in Early Modern Ottoman Kurdistan

The Oral Tradition of Dengbêjî : A Kurdish Genre of Verbal Art and Reported Speech

Orality and Folklore: Reflections on the Folktale Tradition of the Zaza People

Darceñge: A Lekī Poem by Miļā Nawshād

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110598858

311059885X

9783110599626

3110599627

OCLC:

1196256725