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Sleeping in the Courtyard

By Holly Mason Badra

Sleeping in the Courtyard

By Holly Mason Badra

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Sleeping in the Courtyard brings together historically isolated writers in community-and invites readers to join them around the table to share in their memories, secrets, tears, and joys. Featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic work by emerging and well-established writers, this collection shines a light on works by a diverse group of contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora. Recognizing the complex web of physical and lingual displacement of the Kurdish people and celebrating the diverse tapestry of their stories, this collection presents work originally written in English and work translated from Kurdish dialects as well as from Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Swedish. A few works in Kurdish dialects appear alongside their translations, both in recognition of the experience of linguicide and to push against oppressive attempts to strip away Kurdish language. Several works here explore the impact of the countless forms of militarized displacement, cultural destruction, and mass genocide that Kurds have endured. Other pieces illuminate Kurdish experiences of desire, friendship, empowerment, familial intricacies, and other topics spanning across universal human conditions. The writers in these pages take risks both in craft and content-and in some cases, just by daring to write and publish. What emerges in Sleeping in the Courtyard is the antithesis of erasure.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
162
Release Date:
2025-07-30
Publication Date:
2025-07-30
Publisher:
University of Arkansas Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1682262731
ISBN13:
9781682262733
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
245 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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