A century ago, WEB Du Bois coined the term 'double consciousness' to describe an
individual with an identity with several facets, particularly in the context of African-American�…

Claudia Yaghoobi's book analyses diasporic and transnational articulations of Armenian
identity through the literary, film, sculpture, graphic arts, and musical productions of Iranian�…

Originally published in Alfred Hornung and Martina Kohl's Arab American Literature and
Culture (Universit�tsverlag Winter, 2012), Bauridl's essay offers a full discussion of a number�…

As British painter RB Kitaj once insisted, diaspora, from the Greek verb diaspeirein (to
scatter),“is as old as the hills (or caves) but new enough to react to today's newspaper or last�…

Despite the fact that rubrics for reading national and “world” literatures through comparative
optics have grown increasingly sophisticated over the last decade, the problem of how to�…

Through a close reading of Arlene Avakian's Lion Woman's Legacy (1992) and Nancy
Agabian's Me As Her Again (2008), the only two bildungsroman memoirs published by�…

This article explores how the notion of double-consciousness peculiar to the African
dispersion is not distant from the condition of most Arabs in diaspora. Arguably, it is similarly�…

This article focuses on Armenian literature during the Soviet period and engages with the
varied responses of Armenian writers to the Soviet imperialism from its periphery, with a�…

The Armenian dispersion is often studied as a textbook diaspora, with a common origin,
collective memory, shared interests, and a sense of co-responsibility. Among the different�…

The creative submission for my dissertation includes two of my documentary works: They
Will Take My Island, a thirty-minute multimedia collaboration with filmmaker Atom Egoyan for�…