Sherko Bekas : A Kurdish Voice Under the Lens of Critical Stylistics

This book explores poetry by Sherko Bekas, a Kurdish writer and Swedish Tucholsky award winner, providing contextualising biography (with original new information from an interview with his son) and critical stylistic analyses of two selected poems. The authors also include a section on the Kurdish language and translation of the poems into English. There are very few English translations of some of Bekas' poems and no book so far on the stylistic or even linguistic analysis of his work, with the result that Bekas is not widely known in the "Western" world. This book aims to fill this lacuna in the literary and linguistic canon, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of Translation, Stylistics, Middle Eastern History and Literature. Foreword Contents List of Tables Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Defining Political Poetry Written by Bekas 1.2 Overview of the Book References Chapter 2: Sherko Bekas 2.1 Biographical Information 2.2 Rwanga/Ruwange Movement 2.3 Interview with Sherko Bekas’ Son Halo Sherko Bekas References Chapter 3: Introduction to Critical Stylistics and Analysis of The Martyrs’ Wedding 3.1 A Brief Introduction to Critical/Textual Stylistics 3.2 Analysis of Sherko Bekas’ Poem The Martyrs’ Wedding 3.2.1 The Cardinal Number ‘Three’ or Naming and Describing the Killed Students 3.2.2 Positioning Bekas as the Author: The Use of Negation and Implicitness References Chapter 4: Critical Stylistic Analysis of Bloody Crown by Sherko Bekas 4.1 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Equating and Contrasting 4.2 The Use of Metaphorical Meaning-Making References Chapter 5: A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Both Poems in Sorani 5.1 Application of Critical/Textual Stylistics to Kurdish Poems 5.2 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Naming and Describing 5.3 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Representing Actions, Events and States or Representing Processes 5.4 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Equating and Contrasting 5.5 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Negation/Negating References Appendix I Interview with Halo Sherko Bekas (in Sorani) Appendix II Poem ‘The Martyr’s Wedding’ in Sorani Appendix III Poem Bloody Crown in Sorani (English translation in Chapter 4) Index