Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Shared Ownership and Kurdish Folklore 5
6. Resist Diyarbakır, Resist: Exploring Kurdish Literary Intelligentsia in Diyarbakır 19
7. Tales of Woe, Ruthless Foes, and Patriotic Heroes: A Historical-Literary Study of Kurdish (Dis)unity in the Early Modern Era 39
8. Sherko Bekas and the Emergence of Postnational Kurdish Literature 97
9. Re-evaluation of the Yārsān Texts and its Impact on Kurdish Literature 129
10. Kurdish Music as Literature: Some Historical Considerations 147
11. Kurdish Women’s Feminist Poetry: Developing a Voice in Southern Kurdistan and the Diaspora 171
12. Kurdish Women in Fiction and a History of Violence, Displacement, and Migration 193
13. General Index 215