Transnational culture in the Iranian Armenian diaspora / Claudia Yaghoobi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaghoobi, Claudia, 1974- author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies on diasporas and transnationalism.

Edinburgh studies on diasporas and transnationalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenians--Iran--History.

Armenians.

Armenian diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

<i>Transnational Culture</i> studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors. Yaghoobi argues that this liminal state of fluidity helps them to develop a resilience towards ambiguity and handling ambivalence in dealing with various cultures as well as resisting dualistic thinking which in turn allows them to move beyond national boundaries to transnationalism, yet simultaneously display the collective Armenian identity characterized by flexibility, adaptability, and continuity as a result of both multiple uprooting and a Genocide that continues to this day. They serve as a bridge between the homeland and the host nation, occupying what the author theorizes as <i>verants'ughi</i> - the transformational passageway, which requires them to not only risk being in a transitory space and give up the safe space of home and the power that comes with it, but also through doing so, they create transformative works of literature and art.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Prologue: A Turning Point - The Iran-Iraq War

Introduction: From Nationalism in Exile to Transnationalism in Diaspora

1 Diaspora, Nostos and Longing

2 Maintaining Heritage and Assimilation

3 Language as an Ethno-national Identity Marker

4 History, Memory and Collective Consciousness

5 Transnational Diasporic Identity

Conclusion: Negotiating Identity via Creativity

Epilogue: Where is Home?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Yaghoobi, Claudia Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora

ISBN:

1-3995-1239-0

OCLC:

1417147417