“I Feel Removed, Distant, Shattered, in Two Halves”
This article uses close readings of Anna Davtʻyan’s “Diarbekʻir: kʻur” (Դիարբեքիր՝ քուր, “Diyarbakir: Sister”) to challenge solidified positionalities of victim and perpetrator in the context of the Armenian Genocide, and simplified notions of return to “Western Armenia”. “Diarbekʻir: kʻur” is a tra...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eac, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Études arméniennes contemporaines
2021
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | This article uses close readings of Anna Davtʻyan’s “Diarbekʻir: kʻur” (Դիարբեքիր՝ քուր, “Diyarbakir: Sister”) to challenge solidified positionalities of victim and perpetrator in the context of the Armenian Genocide, and simplified notions of return to “Western Armenia”. “Diarbekʻir: kʻur” is a travelogue written by an Armenian from the Republic of Armenia about the author’s own experience travelling to Diyarbakir. In it, identifications with Diyarbakir as Armenian are nuanced and exist alongside new bonds formed with local Kurds on the bases of gender and friendship, rendering the author a fractured relationship with the city. Moreover, a nuanced picture of subject positions among the Kurds in “Diarbek‘ir: k‘ur” resist totalizing and unitary identifications as “perpetrator”. |
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