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Avagyan, Shushan

 
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What is history, undocumented? How do we archive censored lives? A poetic reflection on authorship and erasure, A Book, Untitled is an intimate and innovative approach to autofiction and the act of remembering. In her first novel, Armenian writer Shushan Avagyan tells the story of a fictional encounter between Shushanik Kurghinian and Zabel Yesayan, two early twentieth-century pioneers of feminist literature, whose legacies have been obscured in Armenian history. Their fictive meeting is interspersed with conversations between the author and her friend Lara, who are researching the work of Kurghinian and Yesayan. While sifting through censored documents, unpublished works, and unfinished drafts, they linger in speculation and piece together lives that have been overshadowed by the Tsarist and Stalinist regimes. At once electric and ephemeral, A Book, Untitled is a story of re-cognition otherwise-posthumous, imagined, and intricately powerful.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Shushan Avagyan is the translator of Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot, On the Theory of Prose by Viktor Shklovsky (Dalkey Archive), Art and Production by Boris Arvatov (Pluto), and I Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian (AIWA). Her articles and translations have appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, CONTEXT, Asymptote, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Music & Literature, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches at the American University of Armenia.



Deanna Cachoian-Schanz is a researcher and part-time literary translator. Her articles and translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, The Armenian Weekly, and Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915 (forthcoming, Routledge). Currently, she is writing a monograph and performance project with Istanbul-based architect Bengi Güldoğan on the legacies of shared family trauma and redactive methods of archiving.

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ISBN 10:  1736765957 ISBN 13:  9781736765951
Verlag: Awst Pr, 2023
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