English letters, Kurdish words: Debunking Orientalist Tropes in Kae Bahar’s Letters from a Kurd

This study discusses the affirmation and negation of Orientalist tropes in Kae Bahar’s Letters from a Kurd. As novel by a London-based Iraqi Kurdish novelist, Letters from a Kurd exemplifies many of the issues which inform literary production in transnational and diasporic contexts. While references...

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Main Authors: Maryam Soltan Beyad, Somaye Ghorbani, Cyrus Amiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Cogent Arts & Humanities
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2018.1555875