Abstract

VELASQUEZ BARON, FREDY ALBERTO  and  GARCIA PERILLA, JUAN CARLOS. Power relations in four works of contemporary Kurdish literature. Hallazgos [online]. 2020, vol.17, n.34, pp.79-120.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/2422409x.5018.

Kurdish nationalism is a phenomenon of global relevance that has gained greater notoriety since fifteen years ago, with the invasion of Iraq by the United States (2003) and the empowerment of the Islamic State. In this context, the Kurds have won some demands with the formation of autono- mous regions in Iraq and Syria. This article explores and characterizes from literature the power rela- tions woven between the Kurds and the countries that have sovereignty over their territory, through the analysis of the novels The hawk (1997), by Yasar Kemal, a Turkish novelist; The feathers (1992), by Syrian poet and novelist Salim Barakat; Borderland (2001), by Sherko Fatah, a German writer of Kurdish-Iraqi origin; and the storybook The Madman of Freedom Square (2016), by Hassan Blasim, an Iraqi filmmaker and writer. To study the power relations between the Kurds and the States whe- re they live, three categories of analysis were made and developed: Kurdish culture, based on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus. relations between the Kurds and the states that cross Kurdistan, based on Michel Foucault’s theory of power; and subversion as an attempt at independence, according to the con- cept of the line of flight of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

Keywords : habitus; Kurdistan; lines of flight; Kurdish literature; power relations.

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