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Traumatic Infidelities: Translating The Literature Of The Armenian Genocide, Shushan Avagyan
Traumatic Infidelities: Translating The Literature Of The Armenian Genocide, Shushan Avagyan
Theses and Dissertations - English
This dissertation argues that any engagement with the diasporic literature of the Armenian genocide entails raising the question of translatability, developing critical lenses for reading against domesticating effects, and locating discontinuities that expose the translation as being a replacement of inassimilable experience with language(s).
Chapter one lays the ground for a translational approach to the study of the literature of the Armenian genocide on several levels: first, a text must be recognized as a site of verbal translation, or the replacement of the "foreign" experience with an intelligible language; second, it must be analyzed as a site of intralingual translation, …