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Informationen zum Autor Ozlem Galip is a Lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Kurdish Studies from the University of Exeter. Her main research interests are Kurdish literature, novelistic discourse, migration and diaspora studies. She is also the UK correspondent of the Kurdish newspaper Yeni Ozgur Politika which is based in Germany. Klappentext Unique look at Kurdish culture and identity outside of geographical boundaries Vorwort Unique look at Kurdish culture and identity outside of geographical boundaries Zusammenfassung Unique look at Kurdish culture and identity outside of geographical boundaries Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents* IntroductionKurdistan and beyond Kurdistan: The Search for a HomelandKurds as Descendants of the Medes: The Building of a Myth Kurdistan before the Nineteenth CenturyThe Colonial Division of Kurdistan: First World WarThe Kurdish Diaspora: Formation of Diasporic Identity and Politics of HomelandII. An Overview of Kurdish Politics: Wars, Uprisings and Movements The Hamidiye: Kurdish Tribal Militias in the Ottoman Empire From Unrest to Uprising: Sheikh Said Uprising and OthersThe Emergence of Kurdish socialist movement and PKK’s hegemony Since 1960sIII. Kurdish Literary and Cultural Productions: From Oral Literature to Digital MediaRituals of Oral Story telling: Dengbej, Epics and SongsWriting in Exile: The Emergence and Development of Kurdish NovelKurdish Imagined Community from Afar through TV Satellite and Internet IV. Imagining Kurdistan in Diasporic Novelistic Discourse: Realist and Critical ReflectionsThe Experiences of Displacement: Diaspora as a ‘Temporary Space’Ideological and Political Orientations of the Novelists within the Narratives.Diasporic Imagining of Kurdistan: Under the Lens of Realist and Critical PortrayalDiasporic Memory: From the Individual’s Narratives to the Collective PastV. Kurdish Novelistic Discourse from Turkish Kurdistan: The Lands of Destruction and StruggleThe Territorialisation of Kurdistan: Imagined ‘Greater Kurdistan’Fictionalising Kurdistan in Different Time ZonesThe Meanings of Unattainable ‘Home-land’: Beloved Woman and A Land of LongingVI. Kurdish Novels From Turkish Kurdistan to its Diaspora: Factual or Symbolic?The Impact of Diverse Political Ideologies On the Portrayal of KurdistanThe Perception of ‘Home-land’: the Constant Sense of ‘Outsideness’ and YearningVII. Conclusion...
