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Category Archives: Armenians
“Empire, Nation, Diaspora: Recovering the Voices of Vahé and Hagop Oshagan” at the MLA International Symposium, Lisbon, July 23-25.
Lisbon was recently the site of two important events related to the literature of the Armenian diaspora. The first was a panel that convened at the International Symposium of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the major professional association for scholars … Continue reading
On Armenia-diaspora relations
~Here is the article I wrote for “Hetq” on the recent visit of the new diaspora minister, Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, to Boston. ~ Bridging the Divide: Diaspora Minister Hayrapetyan Promises Restart, but Core Issues Remain 10:12, August 8, 2018 By … Continue reading
The awe of Ararat…
~~It rained all day yesterday in Yerevan, a light drizzle but raw to the bone. At night, the weather turned beautiful, foretelling, I hoped, of the day to come, sunny and crisp and alive. This morning, Ararat is a shimmer … Continue reading
Posted in Armenians, Ordinary places, Passages and Homes
Tagged Armenia, Michael Arlen, Mount Ararat, passage, travel, Yerevan
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An evening of 4 Peleshian films, November 15, in Yerevan
Four films by Ardavazd Peleshian will be screened on November 15, 2017 at Silk Road Hotel, hosted by Folk Arts HUB Foundation. The films are Mountain Patrol, Inhabitants, Seasons of the Year, and two very-shorts from the early 1990s, Life … Continue reading
Posted in Armenians, Cinéphilia, From My Files
Tagged Arthur Peleshian, distance montage, paradjanov, Soviet films, The Seasons of the Year, We
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Rough beauty…
Apples are ordinary; strawberries and figs are explicit; pears are restrained, even hesitant. Watermelons, cantaloupes, and honeydew possess the self-consciousness of the corpulent. But the peach is in a class by itself. On an August afternoon, a peach or two … Continue reading
The Valise–a family memoir
~~”The Valise” was published in the fall 2011 issue of American Literary Review. Since then, the publication has gone digital, and the essay is not available in print or on the ALR website. You can read it … Continue reading
Posted in Armenians, Cities and towns, Languages and readings, Ordinary places, Palestinians, Those we Love
Tagged Abdelrahman Munif, American Literary Review, Amman, Araxi Oshagan, Armenian Genocide, Armenians, Boursa, Erzurum, expulsion from Palestine, Family chronicle, family memoir, Hagop Oshagan, Jerusalem, Mnatsortats, refugees, Remnants (Mnatsortats), western Armenian literature
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Final notes on “The Promise”
~~In The Promise, the Armenian genocide has at last been made into a big, feature-length movie with huge ambitions: to join the company of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Titanic. Such a Hollywood epic, the argument goes, would raise … Continue reading
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Tagged Armenian Genocide, genocide films, representations of the genocide, The Promise
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“The Three Complaints of My Mother” in “Solstice”
~~An essay of mine, “The Three Complaints of My Mother,” is in the Spring issue of “Solstice.” It took almost a decade to find a literary home for this essay, despite all the praise heaped on it by editors many … Continue reading
Promises, promises: preliminary notes on “The Promise.”
~PROMISES, PROMISES~ I, too, saw The Promise. Here are my comments in response to the rhetoric and sloganeering that has surrounded this movie since its release: 1. Our story… Is this “our story”? An ambitious man from the villages goes … Continue reading
Englishing Krikor Beledian
Krikor Beledian is the preeminent Western Armenian man of letters: literary critic, novelist, poet, Beledian has been writing prolifically since the mid 1960s. Difficult, complex, even “unreadable” by some, Beledian’s writing resists quick passage– from its native Western Armenian to … Continue reading
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