Thursday, October 17, 2024

Wasafiri 120: Armenia(n)s – Elevation

Pre-order your copy of WASAFIRI's 120th issue, which contains over a hundred pages of Armenian poetry, articles, reviews and essays. 

Congratulations to the editors for this year long endeavor.



Contents


Editorial

Light Through Our Ruptures

Tatevik Ayvazyan and Naneh V Hovhannisyan


Lead Feature

Two Armenians Conversing in Two Armenians: Tamar Marie Boyadjian and Hrach Martirosyan

Tamar Marie Boyadjian and Hrach Martirosyan, trans. by Maral Aktokmakyan


Articles

Western Armenian: The Curious Story of a Surviving Language and Its Literature

Maral Aktokmakyan


Soviet-Armenian Gulag Literature: At the Crossroads of Ethics and Aesthetics

Siranush Dvoyan, trans. Shushan Avagyan


Life Writing 

When I Became an Armenian-American Writer

Chris Bohjalian


Dear Shogher: Letters to Myself

Shogher Sargsyan, trans. Margarit Ordukhanyan


His Driving Life

Nancy Kricorian


I Want Nice Things

Lusine Hovhannisyan, trans. Thomas Toghramadjian


Evenings in Diaspora

Slyvia Alajaji


Interviews

The Great Repatriation and its Reverberations: An Interview with Hovhannes Margaryan

Tigran Paskevichyan, trans. by Nanor Kebranian


The Past of the Future: A Conversation with Armen Davoudian

Fatemeh Shams


At an Unknown Location: Hovhannes Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan on Language as Asylum

Anush Kocharyan


Art

Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book as Art, Artefact, and Roadmap

Garine Boghossian, Christopher Kazar Janigian, Masha Keryan, and Khatchig Mouradian


Fiction

cenotaph

Aram Pachyan, trans. Nazareth Seferian


Before You Fall Asleep

Christian Batikian, trans. Jesse S Arlen


Loneliness

Narine Abgaryan, trans. Margarit Ordukhanyan and Zara Torlone


Ararat

Anna Davtyan, trans. Hayk Hambartsum


Poetry


Անժողովուրդ Լեզու/Unpeopled Language

Krikor Beledian, trans. Taline Voskeritchian and Christopher Millis


Aleppo, 1915: Surviving After the Survival; when the wolves come thrashing; Dream Dictionary 

Perla Kantarjian


Five Untitled Poems

Marine Petrossian, trans. Arthur Kayzakian and the author


Letters from a Roman Friend

Vahagn Atabekyan, trans. Susan Barba


Letters 'To The Roman'

Mher Arshakyan, trans. Susan Barba


Poetry/Բանաստեղծութիւն; Words/Բառեր  

Tenny Arlen, trans. Jesse S Arlen


Estranged; Photograph of a Dead Star; Death March; My Father on YouTube; Human Rights Violation Request

Arthur Kayzakian


Resurrection; Time; Love Song/Սիրերգութիւն 

Zahrad, trans. Lola Koundakjian


Review Essay


Delimiting Diaspora

Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile - Talar Chahinian

The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power: Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century - Talar Chaninian, Sossie Kasbarian, and Tsolin Nalbantian, eds

displaced հատում - Ara Oshagan and Krikor Beledian, trans. Taline Voskeritchian and Christopher Millis

Myrna Douzjian


Reviews 

Early Modernity & Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512 - 1800 - Sebouh David Aslanian

Artyom Tonoyan


No Sign - Peter Balakian

Chris McCabe


History of the Armenians, Volumes I and II - Kirakos Gandzakets'i, trans. Robert Bedrosian.

Nik Matheou


In Everything I See Your Hand - Naira Kuzmich

The Fear of Large and Small Nations - Nancy Agabian

Olivia Katrandjian


From the Depths of the Heart: Annotated Translation of the Prayers of St. Gregory of Narek - Abraham Terian, trans.

Yeghishé Charents: Souls on Fire: Selected Poems (A Bilingual Edition) - Tatul Sonentz, trans., Viken Tufenkjian. ed

Eddie Arnavoudian


A Book, Untitled - Shushan Avagyan, trans. Deanna Cachoian-Schanz

Helen Vassallo


Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City - Matthew Teller

Sato Moughalian


The Institute for Other Intelligences - Mashinka Firunts Hakopian

We Are All Armenians: Voices from the Diaspora - Aram Mrjoian, ed

Garen Torikian

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