Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature

Literature, images, and metaphor are often where most of a nation’s history are embedded. A study of modern Kurdish literature highlights a fealty to a rich literary past and a rich source of historiography. The articles in this volume address many facets of the literary in the Kurdish world: literary resistance, proverbs, feminist literariness, resistance in literary works, poetry, prose, etc. In the end, the volume offers a general paradigm of the complex literary framework of the Kurds, their continuous resistance for nationhood in their history, and their modern reinventing of the self. An overview of some of the works of what we consider modern in modern Kurdish literature points to both asymmetry and commonality as pertains to comparative literary studies. These works highight the wide extend of thematic reach in Kurdish literary studies.