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

Foreword
Contents
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 Defining Political Poetry Written by Bekas
	1.2 Overview of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: Sherko Bekas
	2.1 Biographical Information
	2.2 Rwanga/Ruwange Movement
	2.3 Interview with Sherko Bekas’ Son Halo Sherko Bekas
	References
Chapter 3: Introduction to Critical Stylistics and Analysis of The Martyrs’ Wedding
	3.1 A Brief Introduction to Critical/Textual Stylistics
	3.2 Analysis of Sherko Bekas’ Poem The Martyrs’ Wedding
		3.2.1 The Cardinal Number ‘Three’ or Naming and Describing the Killed Students
		3.2.2 Positioning Bekas as the Author: The Use of Negation and Implicitness
	References
Chapter 4: Critical Stylistic Analysis of Bloody Crown by Sherko Bekas
	4.1 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Equating and Contrasting
	4.2 The Use of Metaphorical Meaning-Making
	References
Chapter 5: A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Both Poems in Sorani
	5.1 Application of Critical/Textual Stylistics to Kurdish Poems
	5.2 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Naming and Describing
	5.3 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Representing Actions, Events and States or Representing Processes
	5.4 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Equating and Contrasting
	5.5 The Textual-Conceptual Function of Negation/Negating
	References
Appendix I
	Interview with Halo Sherko Bekas (in Sorani)
Appendix II
	Poem ‘The Martyr’s Wedding’ in Sorani
Appendix III
	Poem Bloody Crown in Sorani (English translation in Chapter 4)
Index