October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 8m
English
“You can always go back to an image but not to a land” (Naficy 1997, 215). These words by Canadian Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan allude to the impossibility of his ever returning to a homeland or Origin; unprecedented mass destruction has radically affected the ancestral territorial locus and resulted in a large diasporic community, whose members remain deeply perturbed and expropriated in the multi-layered sites of their existence. The Armenian genocide of 1915, initiating the systematic annihilation of a people, was followed by a long and persistent campaign of denial that continuously agitates the Armenian community in their search for a sense of ...