Foreword
In Shahan Shahnur’s novel Retreat Without Song, the main protagonist Bedros, an Armenian man from Istanbul exiled in Paris in the early 1920s, explains to his lover, a French woman named Nenette, what his former homeland was like. During their conversation, Bedros uses the Turkish term missir bouyd...
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Études arméniennes contemporaines
2021
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | In Shahan Shahnur’s novel Retreat Without Song, the main protagonist Bedros, an Armenian man from Istanbul exiled in Paris in the early 1920s, explains to his lover, a French woman named Nenette, what his former homeland was like. During their conversation, Bedros uses the Turkish term missir bouyda (roasted maize) to address Nenette in an affectionate way. It is “something you eat [...] in Istanbul”, he explains to her, “when they get together during the long, winter evenings, they roast ma... |
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