Essays on Kurds: Historiography, Orality, and Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9781433163340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 346 str.

Amir Hassanpour

Opis

The essays in this collection offer robust theoretical analysis of language and cultural rights, class and gender, policy and politics, history and historiography, nation and nationalism, and Marxism.

Recenzje

"Amir Hassanpour's Essays on Kurds engages the themes of historiography, orality, and nationalism in the context of Middle East history and the complex multinational circumstances of the Kurdish diaspora. Hassanpour focuses on both the oppression of Kurds over the centuries, and resistance with special emphasis on their struggles, culture, and language as forces of liberation. This dialectical approach provides an illuminating framework for a history of the Kurds that draws on original sources, scholarship in many languages, and media texts. The result is an illuminating tour de force of critical historiography."-Douglas Kellner, Professor, George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - List of Tables - Shahrzad Mojab: Foreword: The Renewal of Kurdish Studies - Acknowledgments - Orality and Nationalism - The Absence of Peasant Revolts in the Middle East: A Historiographic Myth - The Politics of A-political Linguistics: Linguists and Linguicide - The Indivisibility of the Nation and Its Linguistic Divisions - The Making of Kurdish Identity: Pre-twentieth-century Historical and Literary Sources - Language Rights in the Emerging World Linguistic Order: The State, The Market, and Communication Technologies - Diaspora, Homeland, and Communication Technologies - Satellite Footprints as National Border: MED-TV and the Extraterritoriality of State Sovereignty - Nation and Nationalism - The (Re)production of Patriarchy in the Kurdish Language - "The Morning of Freedom Rose Up": Kurdish Popular Song and the Exigencies of Cultural Survival - Wanderings in "Adalar Sahilinde" - References - Index.

O autorze

Amir Hassanpour (1943-2017) is a renowned Marxist scholar of Kurdish Studies. He received his PhD in Communication Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He taught at the universities of Windsor and Concordia before joining the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada. He was a prolific author, a popular teacher, and a Marxist revolutionary thinker who left us a rich body of knowledge to rethink and rebuild theories of culture and language rights, nationalism and class struggle, and the politics of resistance movements in the Middle East.