From Zin the Mythical Heroine to Zilan, the First Kurdish Female Suicide Bomber: The PKK’s Creation of a New Feminist Figuration
This article examines how the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK) and its leader Abdullah Öcalan draw inspiration for their national struggle, through an appropriation of the female figure Zin from the 1692 classic Kurdish love myth Mem and Zin written by Ehmedê Xanî (1650-1707), turning her into a sym...
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| Language: | English |
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Lectito Journals
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics |
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| Online Access: | https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/download/from-zin-the-mythical-heroine-to-zilan-the-first-kurdish-female-suicide-bomber-the-pkks-creation-of-13548.pdf |