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Aram Andonian Exile, Trauma and Death: On the Road to Chankiri with Komitas Vartabed transl., ed. and annot. by Rita Soulahian Kuyumjian |
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Part of "Trilogy - April 24, 1915" this work is a translation of 25 articles written by Aram Andonian in Armenian. Andonian was commissioned to write them by the publishers of Arevmoudk for their special edition dedicated to Komitas Vartabed’s 75th birthday. These articles were published in Arevmoudk during a seven month period from December 1946 to June 1947. The articles were called "Komitasi hed. Inch baymannerou dag aratchatsav Komitasi mdki daknabu" (With Komitas: the circumstances which precipitated his mental turmoil). As the title implied, it was intended to highlight the Armenian composer’s tragedy after his arrest and during his journey to exile. But the articles had unclogged the suppressed memory of those years in the author and the few articles that had been planned turned into a series that went beyond their initial mandate and covered the circumstances of not only Komitas’ fate, but also the fate of all those intellectuals who were arrested during that same fateful night. Therefore, the initial title did not reflect the content of the series anymore. Each article was finished with the phrase "to be continued." The 25th article, despite the same ending, "to be continued", was to be the last instalment. They left the reader suspended in air and wanting closure. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kim McQuaid publishes widely in recent U.S. history. He
received his PhD from Northwestern University. He has held two Fulbright
overseas teaching awards, to Malaysia and to Ireland (where he was the Mary
Ball Washington Visiting Professor at the University College Dublin.) His
books include Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of
Twentieth Century Reform; Big Business and Presidential Power: from
FDR to Reagan; The Anxious Years: America in the Vietnam-Watergate
Era; and Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics,
1945-1990. He is currently working on a social history of the Space Age,
and has contributed a chapter to a Societal Impact of Spaceflight volume
published by the NASA History Office in 2007. |
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