Trauma, Memory and Geographies of Identity in Carol Edgarian’s Rise the Euphrates.
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri · 2016
Yazarlar: Nesrin YAVAŞ
First Annual International Symposium on Culture, Yunanistan, Atina, Uluslararası, Sözlü Sunum, Özet Bildiri, 2016-2016, ss 64-64
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<p>1st Annual International Symposium on Culture 9-12 May 2016, Athens, Greece: Abstract Book</p><p><br></p><p>Nesrin Yavaş</p><p>Assistant Professor, Ege University, Turkey</p><p>Trauma, Memory and Geographies of Identity in Carol Edgarian’s Rise the Euphrates</p><p>Armenian-American author Carol Edgarian attempts in her novel Rise the Euphrates to unfold how the traumatic events of 1915 deportations have shaped the self-identifications, self-conceptions of a three-generation Armenian family living in the United States. The memory of the traumatic events of 1915 have never left the cultural luggage of this Armenian family, each member of which has found a different way to cope with their past and their new cultural and social positioning in the United States. This study aims to discuss how ethnic identity construction(s) in a transnational and diasporic context is bound up with the politics of “home,” whether that home be the object of nostalgic longings, or a source of shame and utter denial.</p>