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"Because if the dead cannot live, neither do we" : postmemory and passionate remembering in Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Armenian Genocide trilogy

Lisa Ann Gulesserian · 2015

Catalogue summary

A dissertation reads Micheline Aharonian Marcom's three novels through postmemory, tracing how imagination mediates inherited Armenian Genocide trauma into present literary remembrance.

Why this matters

The sustained trilogy analysis connects Armenian diasporic literature to broader memory theory while distinguishing three different imaginative responses to ancestral violence.

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Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library)

Year

2015

Language

English

DOI

10.15781/t2hm5326v

Citation

Lisa Ann Gulesserian 2015. "Because if the dead cannot live, neither do we" : postmemory and passionate remembering in Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Armenian Genocide trilogy. Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library). https://doi.org/10.15781/t2hm5326v

Topics

Armenian Genocide Language, literature, and translation Diaspora Gender, family, memory, and oral history

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