Essays on Kurds

Historiography, Orality, and Nationalism

Amir Hassanpour author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:26th Mar '20

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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. They continue to remain original to a vast array of debates and contestations in these areas. The book includes unpublished pieces and some key contributions that are most relevant to the contemporary debates on theory and method of nation/nationalism, and the struggle of national minorities for sovereignty, cultural and political rights. Each chapter provides original data and are written over a span of decades, but significantly, they offer a radical break with the colonial, orientalist, and nationalist traditions of knowledge production. This book is an exemplary exploration of nation and nationalism in a Marxist dialectical, historical materialism.

"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

ISBN: 9781433163340

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 587g

346 pages

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