A three-part study follows American Jewish engagement from Hamidian relief through Genocide witnesses and the 2007 congressional recognition dispute, weighing moral duty against strategic concerns.
Interviews and domain-of-use analysis trace declining Armenian fluency in Lebanon as multilingual generations shift toward Arabic, English, and French while renegotiating genocide memory, homeland, and heritage.
Long observation of one post-Ottoman family follows Western Armenians moving from oral habits toward written communication while inherited skills and language continue linking relatives across three continents.
This analysis reads Atom Egoyan's Ararat as an inquiry into the difficulties of representing genocide and remembering a contested past. It examines denial, commemoration, family identity, cinematic form, and the problem of competing historical claims.
Kuzguncuk’s Armenian church and mosque sustain a nostalgic image of Istanbul pluralism, while historic-house restoration and gentrification obscure departed minorities, mid-century Turkification, traumatic exclusion, and newer class divisions.
This article analyzes gender-specific violence during the Armenian Genocide, including sexual humiliation, rape, abduction, forced marriage, and enslavement. It draws on eyewitness and diplomatic materials to relate these practices to deportation and ethnic cleansing.
Björklund compares Armenian communities in Athens and Istanbul through ethnographic fieldwork, using their different settings to examine transnational nationhood, community boundaries, and identity.
Lévy reviews Pattie's ethnography of Armenians rebuilding community, evaluating how historical consciousness, institutions, and daily practice sustain diasporic belonging.
Fieldwork with women-led Yerevan NGOs shows participants shifting between tradition and modernization rhetoric to obtain donor support, navigate officials, and re-enter public life after Soviet quotas ended.
This psychoanalytic account considers how descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors may inherit collective trauma and find pathways for mourning. It links secrecy, denial, family transmission, language, and writing to one analysand's work of remembrance.
Interviews with 200 parous women at a Yerevan clinic found induced abortion functioning as the principal birth-control method, with lifetime median procedures rising by age and lack of contraceptive information driving nonuse.
Interviews with forty Armenian Genocide survivors in the United States document experienced harms, coping through family, faith, labor, and silence, and emotional responses to denial.
Pattie reviews Bakalian's study of Armenian Americans and its account of how inherited belonging, institutions, and everyday identification change across generations in the United States.
This modern history traces the social and cultural formation of Armenian nationality through imperial division, dispersion, genocide, Soviet experience, and renewed independent statehood.
A review of Diana Der Hovanessian's About Time considers how poems about Armenian language, dispersal, and writers killed in 1915 shape contemporary Armenian-American literary memory.
Based on interviews with Armenian women who survived 1915, this preliminary study considers gendered patterns in the genocidal process, including the differing treatment of men, women, and children.
A review of Peter Najarian's third fiction work evaluates its interweaving of personal and collective history after two earlier novels about an Armenian immigrant family in New Jersey.
Margaret Bedrosian uses the confined Auntie in Hapet Kharibian's Home in Exile to argue that Armenian-American literature rarely grants women sustained, three-dimensional representation.
This brief critique examines sampled Armenian American writing for the range of female characters and considers historical and cultural explanations for constrained portrayals.
Orville Taylor's critique endorses much of Bedrosian's analysis that Armenian-American writing by men tends to confine women to traditional, subordinate, and compliant roles.
Joe Rodríguez's critique summarizes recurring stereotypes of Armenian-American women as dutiful mothers and wives shaped by political violence, lost homeland, and migration to the United States.
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