[Linganth] Alex Pillen on Endurance

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Alex Pillen discusses her book Endurance with Janet
McIntosh.

You can find the engaging interview here:
campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In *Endurance *, Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique
within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating
violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many
communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such
uniqueness.
When a culture is under siege and many have lost a former way of life it
may not be clear how a society looks itself in the mirror, finds its
reflection. Alex Pillen’s portrayal of Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World
locates such lines of reflection within everyday language. The fear of a
random geopolitical pair of dice is global, a fear to be honed when reading
this account of uniqueness in the face of totalising loss
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