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Abstract
This article explores the links between Kurdish oral and written literary traditions in Selahattin Demirtaş’s literary works, arguing that they contribute to the practices of heritage-making and collective memory through their use of distinctive sociocultural and literary motifs of the oppressed societies in Turkey while also departing from these practices.
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Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative articles in literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural and literary relations within and beyond the Western tradition. It brings you the work of eminent critics, scholars, theorists, and literary historians, whose essays range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. One of its regular issues every two years concerns East-West literary and cultural relations and is edited in conjunction with members of the College of International Relations at Nihon University. Each issue includes reviews of significant books by prominent comparatists.