Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World

By Alex Pillen

In Endurance, Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such uniqueness.
When a culture is under siege and many have lost a former way of life it may not be clear how a society looks itself in the mirror, finds its reflection. Alex Pillen's portrayal of Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World locates such lines of reflection within everyday language. The fear of a random geopolitical pair of dice is global, a fear to be honed when reading this account of uniqueness in the face of totalising loss.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004709517
• ISBN13: 9789004709515
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"