Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

through different stages of the struggle of nations. In
most cases, literature is linked to contemporary politics
or national interests, or in any way dependent of the
social struggles of any nation or its liberation movements.
Literature has always been an important and indivisible
part of these struggles throughout the centuries.
When the authors, the poets or the novelists write there
is no doubt that they are recording ideas they believe in.
These ideas are the direct result of a belief system, of
principles, of a stand from national and social issues and
a certain body of knowledge. In this manner, writers
who advocate colonial ideas and write in opposition to
the peoples’ revolutions stress in their writings that
societies cannot be equal and that people are different
like the five fingers of the hand are from each other.
They also advocate that masters and slaves have always
existed and that the small and the big co-exist side by
side. They also present a picture of the Feudal Lords and
Governors as though they are deities, while they refer to
the people as cattle and sheep who do not understand
anything and are good at nothing. In contrast to this we
find freedom writers describe the people as the workers
who labour in constructing history and in changing the
world and they expose the unnatural state of affairs
whereby smaller nations suffer because of national
persecution.
In the same way the colonising forces advocate that
literature is universal and that it belongs to all of humanity.
They also say that confining the author to his national
expression is a form of intellectual terrorism that leads
to the confinement of his creative energies. The aim of
these policies is to keep literature within the confines of
the ruling majority and in its hands. This prevents the
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