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Stateless - The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Hardcover)
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Stateless - The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Hardcover)
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Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile focuses
on two centers of Western Armenian literary production following
the Armenian genocide to examine the intersection of violence and
art, displacement and language vitality. In looking at the work of
a post WWI Paris-based, short-lived transnational literary movement
called Menk [We], it explores how the politically violent origins
of dispersion informed the aesthetic development of a new
literature and the articulation of literary belonging in exile. In
looking at the post WWII activities and publications of the
Writers' Association of Syria and Lebanon, it traces how the
Armenian diaspora's literature was nationalized in the absence of
state institutions. It shows that when Beirut took over as the
nucleus of the diaspora's literary activity and intellectuals began
to construct a unified and coherent narrative of the diaspora, the
city came to be positioned as the thread that connected the current
activities to the pre-1915 literary tradition and the Menk
generation was excluded from the modern Armenian literary canon due
to its writers' attempts to understand diasporic experience as
interrupted time. Ultimately, it argues that the adoption of the
category of the "national" as the organizing logic of literary
production in a diaspora setting limited the long-term vitality of
this stateless language, for it ignored the multifarious
composition of diaspora communities.
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