Shaping Diyarbakır through words. Representations and narrations of the city in Kurdish and Turkish literature during the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Marilungo, Francesco
Date: 18 April 2018
Publisher
University of Exeter
Degree Title
PhD in Kurdish Studies
Abstract
The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the image of the city of Diyarbakır
as emerging from Kurdish and Turkish literature throughout the twentieth
century. Diyarbakır city represents a highly contentious place in socio-political
and cultural terms for the Kurdish vis-à-vis the Turkish imagined community.
The first chapter is ...
The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the image of the city of Diyarbakır
as emerging from Kurdish and Turkish literature throughout the twentieth
century. Diyarbakır city represents a highly contentious place in socio-political
and cultural terms for the Kurdish vis-à-vis the Turkish imagined community.
The first chapter is dedicated to the image of the city previous to the foundation
of the Turkish Republic in 1923 as emerging from accounts of travellers from
different ages and different languages. Then, in four different chapters, four
different corpuses of Turkish and Kurdish literature are taken under the focus
of the analysis. Each corpus allows the discussion of certain aspects and
themes related to the city. Overall, each chapter and each corpus constitute a
piece of the deconstructed literary image of the city, which is at the centre of
this research.
Since Diyarbakır is a contested city, its representations are deeply involved
in processes of appropriation and symbolization of place. Therefore, in the
shaping of literary Diyarbakır throughout the twentieth century, the conflicting
political dynamics between the Turkish State and local Kurdish actors play a
crucial role.
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