Sherko Bekas: A Kurdish Voice under the Lens of Critical Stylistics

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· Springer Nature
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This book explores poetry by Sherko Bekas, a Kurdish writer and Swedish Tucholsky award winner, providing contextualising biography (with original new information from an interview with his son) and critical stylistic analyses of two selected poems. The authors also include a section on the Kurdish language and translation of the poems into English. There are very few English translations of some of Bekas' poems and no book so far on the stylistic or even linguistic analysis of his work, with the result that Bekas is not widely known in the "Western" world. This book aims to fill this lacuna in the literary and linguistic canon, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of Translation, Stylistics, Middle Eastern History and Literature.

About the author

Ulrike Tabbert is a Senior Public Prosecutor (Oberamtsanwältin) at a German prosecution office and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She holds a PhD in linguistics from Huddersfield and researches the construction of crime, criminals and victims across a variety of text types. Among other publications, she is the author of two monographs, Crime and Corpus (2015) and Language and Crime (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) as well as co-editor of The Linguistics of Crime (2022).

Mahmood K. Ibrahim (known as Mahmood Baban) is Professor of Linguistics at Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University in Iraq and director and supervisor of the language courses at Kirkuk Institute. He completed his PhD in English Language and Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK, in 2018.

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