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Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels
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Forms of Melancholy in Modern Kurdish Novels presents a critical literary analysis of narrative forms used in Kurdish novels that articulate loss, mourning, and melancholia.
Based on a range of perspectives on questions of loss, mourning, and melancholia, this study elucidates how melancholy is appropriated as a multi-functional literary device by Kurdish novelists to articulate a broad spectrum of subjectivities often mediated by political and socio-cultural reality. Adapting an interdisciplinary approach, Ahmet Atas situates Kurdish melancholy narratives within broader scholarly discussions on loss and melancholia. Atas demonstrates how melancholy is utilized as an effective artistic device by Kurdish writers to stage not only the grief of an oppressed nation, but its political and cultural resistances. Providing an original case study, this book illuminates how melancholy literature acquires unique political and cultural functions, missions, and meanings in contrasting colonial and postcolonial settings.
Table of Contents
Note on Translation
Introduction: Loss, Melancholy, Representation
1. From Reiterations of Heroism to Narratives of Loss and Grief: An Overview of the Kurdish Novel
2. Melancholy as Intellectual Fidelity to a Political Ideal and Love-Melancholy in Mehmed Uzun's Siya Evînê
3. Loss, Melancholy and Martyrdom in Ibrahim Seydo Aydogan's Resû Spî
4. State Violence, Irreversibility of Loss and Implications of “Melancholic Murder” in Firat Cewerî's Novels
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Feb 05 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781666978926 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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