Introduction

Literature, images, and metaphor are often where most of a nation’s history are embedded. A study of modern Kurdish literature highlights a fealty to a rich literary past and a rich source of historiography.

Scope of the Volume

The articles in this volume address many facets of the literary in the Kurdish world: proverbs, feminist literature, and resistance in literary works, poetry, prose, etc. In the end, the volume offers a general paradigm of the complex literary framework of the Kurds, their continuous resistance for nationhood in their history, and their modern reinventing of the self.

Key Themes

An overview of some of the works in modern Kurdish literature points to both asymmetry and commonality in comparative literary studies. These works highlight the thematic reach in Kurdish literary studies.