Table of Contents* Introduction Kurdistan and beyond Kurdistan: The Search for a Homeland Kurds as Descendants of the Medes: The Building of a Myth Kurdistan before the Nineteenth Century The Colonial Division of Kurdistan: First World War The Kurdish Diaspora: Formation of Diasporic Identity and Politics of Homeland II. An Overview of Kurdish Politics: Wars, Uprisings and Movements The Hamidiye: Kurdish Tribal Militias in the Ottoman Empire From Unrest to Uprising: Sheikh Said Uprising and Others The Emergence of Kurdish socialist movement and PKK's hegemony Since 1960s III. Kurdish Literary and Cultural Productions: From Oral Literature to Digital Media Rituals of Oral Story telling: Dengbej, Epics and Songs Writing in Exile: The Emergence and Development of Kurdish Novel Kurdish Imagined Community from Afar through TV Satellite and Internet IV. Imagining Kurdistan in Diasporic Novelistic Discourse: Realist and Critical Reflections The Experiences of Displacement: Diaspora as a 'Temporary Space' Ideological and Political Orientations of the Novelists within the Narratives. Diasporic Imagining of Kurdistan: Under the Lens of Realist and Critical Portrayal Diasporic Memory: From the Individual's Narratives to the Collective Past V. Kurdish Novelistic Discourse from Turkish Kurdistan: The Lands of Destruction and Struggle The Territorialisation of Kurdistan: Imagined 'Greater Kurdistan' Fictionalising Kurdistan in Different Time Zones The Meanings of Unattainable 'Home-land': Beloved Woman and A Land of Longing VI. Kurdish Novels From Turkish Kurdistan to its Diaspora: Factual or Symbolic? The Impact of Diverse Political Ideologies On the Portrayal of Kurdistan The Perception of 'Home-land': the Constant Sense of 'Outsideness' and Yearning VII. Conclusion.