This research aims at the investigation of the representation of the Kurds in well-known Persian novels published after the 1979 Revolution in Iran (1980–2011). The specific purpose of the research is to explore the type of the representation, possible patterns of representation, and the changes in representation of the Kurds in post-revolution Iranian novels as popular texts among Iranian readers. To this end, out of the novels published in the three decades of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, fifty great, award-winner and widely read Persian novels have been selected in a systematically random way. Next, the conceptual and analytic tool of representation was employed by the researchers to analyze the novels to understand the practice and modality of Kurdish representation, tease out the implied meanings in the novels and find out the general attitude of the producer of the representation. The results demonstrate that a number of strategies were used in the novels to depoliticize the Kurds and reduce them to cultural and anthropological categories.
