Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to twelve contemporary Kurdish writers: might the Kurds have a country to call their own by the year 2046 - exactly a century after the last glimmer of independence (the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad)? Or might the struggle for independence have taken new turns and new forms? Throughout the 20th century (and so far in the 21st), the Kurds have been betrayed, suppressed, stripped of their basic rights (from citizenship to the freedom to speak their own language) and had their political aspirations crushed at every turn. In this groundbreaking anthology, Kurdish authors (including several former political prisoners, and one currently serving a 183-year sentence for his views) imagine a freer future, one in which it is no longer effectively illegal to be a Kurd. From future eco-activism, to drone warfare, to the resuscitation of victims of past massacres, these stories explore different sides of the present struggle through the metaphor of futurism to dazzling effect. The first anthology of Kurdish science fiction ever collected and published in the UK, we have invited authors from all parts of 'Kurdistan' and the diaspora to write specially commissioned stories set in their own versions of the future.

This novel by one of Turkey's most highly regarded writers tells the story of a granddaughter's reckoning with the suppressed and traumatic memories of her grandmother, who survived a genocidal massacre in the Dersim region of southeast Turkey in 1938. Based on Sema Kaygusuz's relationship to her own grandmother, the novel embeds the turmoil of contemporary mass violence within mythic and deep historical timescapes, cracking open the modern history of Turkey to ask greater questions about good and evil, about exile and survival, about resilience in an age of everyday horror.

Der Band befasst sich mit dem k. u. k. Kriegspressequartier (KPQ), das von seiner Entstehung und Komplexitat her unter den kriegsfuhrenden Landern des Ersten Weltkriegs einzigartig war. Die Aufsatze widmen sich zum einen jenen Massnahmen, die das KPQ anordnete, leitete und kontrollierte. Dazu gehoerten die Kriegsberichterstattung in journalistischen Frontberichten und fotografischen Dokumentationen, die Verarbeitung des Krieges mittels Malerei oder das Festhalten des Kriegsgeschehens mit der Filmkamera. Zum anderen bewerten die Autoren die Propagandamassnahmen innerhalb eines breiteren Bezugsrahmens, und zwar mit Blick auf die alternativen Spielraume, die die zentralisierte Verwaltung gestattete. Als Vergleichsebenen werden ausserhalb des Wirkungsbereichs des KPQ liegende Tendenzen des Kulturbetriebs herangezogen.

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Wurzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: The Edwardian Era - An Age of Transition, language: English, abstract: This paper will take a close look on both the original story and its subsequent adaptation concerning changes in the plot, settings and the themes that differ from the original. To start off, the question of what a literary adaptation is will be discussed. The conclusion at the end of the paper will answer the question if Truffaut's adaptation is an extension of the story, meaning an original film with a literary base, or rather a literary adaptation, confined to the set - up of the original story.