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Folklore has been a phenomenon based on nostalgic and autochthonous nuances conveyed with a story-telling technique with a penchant for over-playing and nationalistic pomp and circumstance, often with significant consequences for societal, poetic, and cultural areas. These papers highlight challenges that have an outreaching relationship to the regional, rhetorical, and trans-rhetorical devices and manners in Kurdish folklore, which subscribes to an ironic sense of hope all the while issuing an appeal for a largely unaccomplished nationhood, simultaneously insisting on a linguistic solidarity. In a folkloric literature that has an overarching theory of poetics - perhaps even trans-figurative cognitive poetics due to the multi-faceted nature of its application and the complexity of its linguistic structure - the relationship of man (and less frequently woman) with others takes center stage in many of the folkloric creations. Arts are not figurative representations of the real in the Kurdish world; they are the real.

Foreword ...VII
Acknowledgements ...IX
Michael Chyet
Applying the Oral-Formulaic Theory to Mem û Zîn ...1
Leonard Michael Koff
Mem û Zîn as Court Literature ...40
Vera Eccarius-Kelly
Cleansing the Galleries: A Museum in the Imagination of Kurdish
Diaspora Artists and Activists ...64
Suat Baran
From Fairytale Character to Lost Goddess: The Archetypal
Representation of Stepmother within Kurdish Folklore ...82
Duygu Çelik
The Impact of the Dengbêjî Tradition on Kurdish Theater in Turkey ...96
Djene R. Bajalan
Conservatives and Radicals: Ethnicity and Politics in Early Modern
Ottoman Kurdistan ...119
Amir Sharifi, Zuzan Barwari
The Oral Tradition of Dengbêjî : A Kurdish Genre of Verbal Art
and Reported Speech ...136
Eberhard Werner
Orality and Folklore: Reflections on the Folktale Tradition
of the Zaza People ...169
Mustafa Dehqan
Darceñge: A Lekī Poem by Miļā Nawshād ...191
Index ...209