LEADER 04656nam 22005895 450 001 9911040917003321 005 20251113120422.0 010 $a9783032064424$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783032064417 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-06442-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32413388 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32413388 035 $a(CKB)42940211400041 035 $a(OCoLC)1552122502 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-06442-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9942940211400041 100 $a20251113d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnglophone Kurdish Narratives Unveiled $eReaders as Witnesses, Witnesses as Resistance /$fby Zhila Gholami 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (292 pages) 225 1 $aLiteratures and Cultures of the Islamic World,$x2945-7068 311 08$aPrint version: Anglophone Kurdish Narratives Unveiled Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9783032064417 327 $a -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Engaging with Postcolonial Witness Literature: Reader's Positionality and Response-abilities -- 2 A Historical and Geo-political Background -- Part II: Unveiling Multifaceted Testimonies -- 3 Genre and Testimony -- 4 Gendered Perspective -- 5 Generational Voices -- 6 Personal Positionality and Response-abilities -- Part III: Reader Engagement and Response-abilieis -- 7 Other Resistant Readers and Implicated Readers -- 8 Concluding Reflections. 330 $aThis book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature in English as a case study. It aims to show how readers actively engage with witness literature, serving both as witnesses to the narratives presented and as active participants in acts of resistance. Kurdish Anglophone writings offer distinctive case studies that unveil the intricate interplay between narratives and readers' positionality and response-ability. These positions span the Western world, with a particular focus on Euro-America and Australia, as well as the Middle Eastern nations where Kurds have been historically divided and marginalized. Additionally, there are readers from marginalized communities around the world, described here as ?global solidarity readers?. This book considers how each of these reader positions offers a unique vantage point for engaging with these narratives. Drawing on a rich and varied methodology, the book advances research on testimonial narratives at a time when the literary landscape is witnessing an increasing outpouring of witness literature in response to ongoing issues of colonization, warfare, and violence. Zhila Gholami earned her Ph.D. in literature from Griffith University and is Adjunct Member of the Griffith Centre for Cultural and Social Research. Her research interests include postcolonial and diaspora literature, witness literature, memory and post-memory studies, refugee narratives, and art activism. Gholami?s work has appeared in Continuum, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Middle East Women?s Studies, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and Art + Australia. She was 2024 Fryer Fellow at the University of Queensland (UQ), where she studied a unique archive of letters written by refugees detained on Nauru between 2001 and 2005. She is currently Casual Academic in UQ?s School of Communication and Arts, teaching contemporary literature. She is also Recipient of the John Oxley Fellowship 2025 at the State Library of Queensland, where she is documenting and preserving stories of refugee experiences and highlighting their cultural and social contributions to Queensland society. 410 0$aLiteratures and Cultures of the Islamic World,$x2945-7068 606 $aMiddle Eastern literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 606 $aMiddle Eastern Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aNarratology 615 0$aMiddle Eastern literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 14$aMiddle Eastern Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aNarratology. 676 $a820.9891597 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911040917003321 996 $aAnglophone Kurdish Narratives Unveiled$94456151 997 $aUNINA