A01=Talar Chahinian
Armenian culture
Armenian diaspora
Armenian genocide
Armenian identity
Armenian language
Armenian literature
assimilation
Author_Talar Chahinian
Beirut
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community building
cultural continuity
cultural heritage
cultural identity
cultural production
diaspora communities
diaspora intellectuals
diaspora politics
diaspora studies
displacement
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ethnic identity
exile
genocide
historical memory
identity
intellectual history
language endangerment
language preservation
literary aesthetics
literary canon
literary criticism
literary history
literary modernism
literary production
literary representation
literary themes
literature
memory
Menk generation
national literature
nationalism
orphanhood
Paris
patriarchy
post-World War I
post-World War II
Soviet Armenia
survival
transnational literature
transnationalism
trauma
Western Armenian
Product details
- ISBN 9780815637950
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 20 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Stateless, Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, and beyond. Chahinian highlights two specific time periods—post-WWI Paris and post-WWII Beirut—to trace the ways in which literature developed in each diaspora community. In Paris, a literary movement known as Menk addressed the horrors Armenians experienced and focused on creating a new literary aesthetic centered on belonging while in exile. In Beirut, Chahinian shows how the literature was nationalized in the absence of state institutions. Over time, Armenian intellectuals constructed a unified and coherent narrative of the diaspora that returned to the pre-1915 literary tradition and excluded the Menk generation. Chahinian argues that the adoption of "national" as the literature’s organizing logic ultimately limited its vitality and longevity as it ignored the diverse composition of diaspora communities.
Talar Chahinian lectures in the program for Armenian studies at University of California, Irvine where she is also visiting faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature. She coedits Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.
