English letters, Kurdish words: Debunking Orientalist Tropes in Kae Bahar’s Letters from a Kurd
| Autor: | Somaye Ghorbani, Cyrus Amiri, Maryam Soltan Beyad |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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lcsh:Fine Arts
media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:A kurdish novel orientalism World literature Negation lcsh:AZ20-999 media_common 060201 languages & linguistics Literature kae bahar business.industry lcsh:NX1-820 General Arts and Humanities world literature 06 humanities and the arts Art lcsh:Arts in general lcsh:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities 0602 languages and literature Orientalism lcsh:N lcsh:General Works business born-translated novel |
| Zdroj: | Cogent Arts & Humanities, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2331-1983 |
| Popis: | This study discusses the affirmation and negation of Orientalist tropes in Kae Bahar’s Letters from a Kurd. As novel by a London-based Iraqi Kurdish novelist, Letters from a Kurd exemplifies many of the issues which inform literary production in transnational and diasporic contexts. While references to recent studies of world literature by David Damrosch, Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, Pheng Cheah, and Rebecca Walkowitz provide a framework for discussing and understanding the conditions of the novel’s production and circulation, Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism provides us with a critical standpoint for discussing the novelist’s representation of the Kurdish society. The findings of the study suggest that, despite the demands of the global market and the Orientalist history of the English language, the novel provides a nuanced representation of the Kurdish society by debunking Orientalist fixities stereotypically attributed to Middle Eastern communities. |
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