Between Historical Explanation and Narrative Understanding: The Story of Menk and the Burden of Representation

A lecture by Dr. Talar Chahinian
California State University, Long Beach

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Dr. Chahinian’s presentation will overview the work of a group of orphans, who, in 1931, launched a short-lived, diasporan literary movement called Menk in Paris. The works of these French-Armenian writers, though devoid of explicit memory of the catastrophic events of the past, characterize the crisis of survival in the aftermath of the genocide, both for the survivor living in exile and the displaced culture’s prospects of reproduction.

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies