The Magical Pine Ring

Author : Margaret Bedrosian
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814323391

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The Magical Pine Ring by Margaret Bedrosian Pdf

Margaret Bedrosian's pioneering interdisciplinary study examines the continuing effect of Armenian history on Armenian-American writing. Using the work of ten Armenian-American poets and fiction and non-fiction writers, she shows the continuing impact on Armenian Americans of cultural symbols, myths, and attitudes carried over from the Old World, and explores the ways in which two cultures meet, conflict, and become integrated in the imagination. Through analysis of writers' actual or fictionalized experience, The Magical Pine Ring provides an understanding of the Armenians' specific concerns as Armenians and as immigrants, the effect of their self-awareness as Armenians on their adaptation to America, the typical and stereotypical situations and personalities that emerged with time, and the key values and beliefs that endured even as names were changed and assimilation blurred physical and social demeanor. Bedrosian also explores the directions Armenian-American writers have taken in portraying group history and the nature of their self-discovery as Armenian Americans. For the most part, this literature is not a direct outgrowth of the mainstream of Armenian literature. The relationship of the writer discussed here is one of spirit, of ancestral sympathies, burdens, and responsibilities. These writers register the pain of exile and alienation as they weave images of yearning and loss, celebration and futuristic vision into their writing. Through their crossroads identity in America, these writers add to our understanding of the Armenian diaspora.

Author : Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1645 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315480831

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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies by Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh Pdf

This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.

Author : Rouben Paul Adalian
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0810874504

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Historical Dictionary of Armenia by Rouben Paul Adalian Pdf

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Armenia relates the turbulent past of this persistent country through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Armenian history from the earliest times to the present.

Author : Benjamin F. Alexander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755648825

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Ararat in America by Benjamin F. Alexander Pdf

How has the distinctive Armenian-American community expressed its identity as an ethnic minority while 'assimilating' to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a sense of Armenian identity but specific ethnic-partisan leanings within the group's population. Against the backdrop of key geopolitical events from the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide to the creation of an independent and then Soviet Armenia, it explores the rivalry between two major Armenian political parties, the Tashnags and the Ramgavars, and the relationship that existed between partisan leaders and their broader constituency. Rather than treating the partisan conflict as simply an impediment to Armenian unity, Benjamin Alexander examines the functional if accidental role that it played in keeping certain community institutions alive. He further analyses the two camps as representing two conflicting visions of how to be an ethnic group, drawing a comparison between the sociology-of-religion models of comfort religion and challenge religion. A detailed political and social history, this book integrates the Armenian experience into the broader and more familiar narratives of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War in the USA.

Author : Dale Tracy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773550308

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With the Witnesses by Dale Tracy Pdf

While trauma theory has been adopted by contemporary literary and cultural studies as an ethical way to study depictions of suffering, there is a risk that its present use could cause more harm than good. By emphasizing inaccessible histories, unspeakable suffering, and unconscious witnessing, trauma theory may lead readers to claim others’ suffering through empathic identification. In With the Witnesses, Dale Tracy argues that poetry offers an alternative approach to engage with not only suffering in art but suffering in general. Examining the strategies of witness poetry, Tracy interrogates and reformulates the dominant models of trauma studies in which readers take over the witnessing position by identifying with the speaker as a witness. If the purpose of reading such poetry is to contribute to a chain of witnesses, what is the distinct role of a reader, and how does it differ from the role of the poem’s speaker? Tracy proposes that metonymy – a logic of nearness rather than likeness – is compassion’s formal manifestation. Analyzing poetry that emphasizes the contiguity of metonymy over the substitution of metaphor, she attends to the positions into which witnessing speakers invite readers. Poems that respond to diverse national and transnational contexts of atrocity, conflict, and marginalization guide With the Witnesses toward a compassionate response to suffering that involves feeling with – not as – another. Following each poem as a unique theory of compassion, With the Witnesses demonstrates that poems hold suffering signed as art, not claimable traces of suffering.

Author : Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412835923

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The Armenian Genocide by Richard G. Hovannisian Pdf

World War I was a watershed, a defining moment, in Armenian history. Its effects were unprecedented in that it resulted in what no other war, invasion, or occupation had achieved in three thousand years of identifiable Armenian existence. This calamity was the physical elimination of the Armenian people and most of the evidence of their ever having lived on the great Armenian Plateau, to which the perpetrator side soon gave the new name of Eastern Anatolia. The bearers of an impressive martial and cultural history, the Armenians had also known repeated trials and tribulations, waves of massacre, captivity, and exile, but even in the darkest of times there had always been enough remaining to revive, rebuild, and go forward. This third volume in a series edited by Richard Hovannisian, the dean of Armenian historians, provides a unique fusion of the history, philosophy, literature, art, music, and educational aspects of the Armenian experience. It further provides a rich storehouse of information on comparative dimensions of the Armenian genocide in relation to the Assyrian, Greek and Jewish situations, and beyond that, paradoxes in American and French policy responses to the Armenian genocides. The volume concludes with a trio of essays concerning fundamental questions of historiography and politics that either make possible or can inhibit reconciliation of ancient truths and righting ancient wrongs.

Author : Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351492188

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Sacred Justice by Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy Pdf

Sacred Justice is a cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir, unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish architects of the Armenian Genocide. The leaders of Operation Nemesis took it upon themselves to seek justice for their murdered families, friends, and compatriots. Sacred Justice includes a large collection of previously unpublished letters, found in the upstairs study of the author's grandfather, Aaron Sachaklian, one of the leaders of Nemesis, that show the strategies, personalities, plans, and dedication of Soghomon Tehlirian, who killed Talaat Pasha, a genocide leader; Shahan Natalie, the agent on the ground in Europe; Armen Garo, the center of Operation Nemesis; Aaron Sachaklian, the logistics and finance officer; and others involved with Nemesis. Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy tells a story that has been either hidden by the necessity of silence or ignored in spite of victims' narratives—the story of those who attempted to seek justice for the victims of genocide and the effect this effort had on them and on their families. Ultimately, this volume reveals how the narratives of resistance and trauma can play out in the next generation and how this resistance can promote resilience.

Author : Alexis Demirdjian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137561633

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The Armenian Genocide Legacy by Alexis Demirdjian Pdf

This volume focuses on the impact of the Armenian Genocide on different academic disciplines at the crossroads of the centennial commemorations of the Genocide. Its interdisciplinary nature offers the opportunity to analyze the Genocide from different angles using the lens of several fields of study.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271047089

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Rethinking Arshile Gorky by Anonim Pdf

A reexamination of the art of Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), and an exploration of his role in the development of modern abstraction in America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968047

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Are We what We Eat? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tracy Floreani
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438447698

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Fifties Ethnicities by Tracy Floreani Pdf

Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America. Fifties Ethnicities brings together a variety of texts to explore what it meant to be American in the middle of “America’s Century.” In a series of comparative readings that draws on novels, television programs, movie magazines, and films, Tracy Floreani crosses generic boundaries to show how literature and mass media worked to mold concepts of ethnicity in the 1950s. Revisiting well-known novels of the period, such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, as well as less-studied works, such as William Saroyan’s Rock Wagram and C. Y. Lee’s The Flower Drum Song (the original source of the more famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical), Floreani investigates how the writing of ethnic identity called into question the ways in which signifiers of Americanness also inherently privileged whiteness. By putting these novels into conversation with popular media narratives such as I Love Lucy, the author offers an in-depth examination of the boundaries and possibilities for participating in American culture in an era that greatly influenced national ideas about identity. While midcentury mass media presented an undeniably engaging vision of American success, national belonging, and guidelines for cultural citizenship, Floreani argues that minority writers and artists were, at the same time, engaging that vision and implicitly participating in its construction.

Author : Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813922674

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"Starving Armenians" by Merrill D. Peterson Pdf

Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenians, a minority in the Ottoman Empire, died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian Desert. Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, from initial reports to President Wilson until Armenia's eventual absorption into the Soviet Union.

Author : Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469640716

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Picturing Identity by Hertha D. Sweet Wong Pdf

In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, Wong argues that, in grappling with the breakdown of stable definitions of identity and unmediated representation, these writers-artists experiment with hybrid autobiography in image and text to break free of inherited visual-verbal regimes and revise painful histories. These works provide an interart focus for examining the possibilities of self-representation and self-narration, the boundaries of life writing, and the relationship between image and text. Wong considers eight writers-artists, including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.

Author : Ilaria Serra,Peggy Schaller
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781581129724

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Facs - Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies by Ilaria Serra,Peggy Schaller Pdf

The editors of the "Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies" literary journal provide a forum for comparative study in the arts, humanities, language, culture, and social sciences.

Author : Grigoris Balakian
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400096770

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Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian Pdf

On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths. Armenian Golgotha is Balakian’s devastating eyewitness account—a haunting reminder of the first modern genocide and a controversial historical document that is destined to become a classic of survivor literature.