Exploring the Kurdish Literary Tradition in Selahattin Demirtaş’s Works

This article explores the links between Kurdish oral and written literary traditions in Selahattin Demirtaş’s literary works, arguing that they contribute to the practices of heritage-making and collective memory through their use of distinctive sociocultural and literary motifs of the oppressed soc...

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Published in:Comparative literature studies (Urbana) 2024-02, Vol.61 (1), p.17-32
Main Author: Galip, Özlem Belçim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
General Interest
Kurdish literature
Languages
Literature
resistance literature
Selahattin Demirtaş
Turkish literature
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Summary:This article explores the links between Kurdish oral and written literary traditions in Selahattin Demirtaş’s literary works, arguing that they contribute to the practices of heritage-making and collective memory through their use of distinctive sociocultural and literary motifs of the oppressed societies in Turkey while also departing from these practices.
ISSN:0010-4132
1528-4212
DOI:10.5325/complitstudies.61.1.0017