A Discussion on the Life-Imprisoned Kurdish Literature from within

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 13:15
Location: FSE022 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
Oral Presentation
Edip YALÇINKAYA, independent author, Turkey
I will discuss life-imprisoned Kurdish literature, situating my own case in the broader contexts of imprisonment and the tradition of writing, imprisonment and literature; I explore this in detail in the case of Shahrazad. I will then explore the possibilities of literature as a cure in the case of my generation, which needs to have/create a narrative for itself and argue for it as an incidental discovery of a lost time and space, and as an act of searching for oneself in the darkness. I will also analyze the relationship between literature and politics, and argue that literature is an impression and a memory, and a means to reach the truth.