TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bajalan,Djene R.
AU  - Baran,Suat
AU  - Barwari,Zuzan
AU  - Chyet,Michael
AU  - Dehqan,Mustafa
AU  - Eccarius-Kelly,Vera
AU  - Koff,Leonard Michael
AU  - Korangy,Alireza
AU  - Kreyenbroek,Philip G.
AU  - Sharifi,Amir
AU  - Werner,Eberhard
AU  - Çelik,Duygu Ç
TI  - Kurdish Art and Identity: Verbal Art, Self-definition and Recent History 
SN  - 9783110596892
AV  - GR271.K85 K84 2020
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Arts, Kurdish
KW  - Epic poetry, Kurdish
KW  - Fables, Kurdish
KW  - Folk dancing, Kurdish
KW  - Folk literature, Kurdish
KW  - Folk songs, Kurdish
KW  - Kurdish literature
KW  - Cultural sociology
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Kurds
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Kurds, folklore
KW  - cultural sociology
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599626
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110599626
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