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AUTHOR ARIS JANIGIAN TO SPEAK AT NAASR ON 'EXILE, MEMORY AND ASSIMILATION'
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2013/02/28/author-aris-janigian-to-speak-at-naasr-on-exile-memory-and-assimilation/
ARTS | FEBRUARY 28, 2013 1:36 PM
Aris Janigian
BELMONT, Mass. - Writer Aris Janigian, author of the acclaimed novel,
This Angelic Land, will give a lecture titled "Exile, Memory and
Assimilation: The Armenian Experience as the Essential American
Experience," on Thursday, March 14, at 8 p.m. at the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), 395 Concord
Ave. The lecture is co-sponsored by the AGBU-YP, Boston, and NAASR.
This lecture is given in recognition of Emmanuel P. Varandyan
(1902-1988), novelist (The Well of Ararat, The Moon Sails), professor
of English literature at Ohio State University, NAASR Board Member
and benefactor, and tireless advocate for Armenian Studies.
Janigian is considered one of the most important Armenian-American
novelists working today. Each of his three critically-acclaimed novels,
Bloodvine, Riverbig and This Angelic Land, places ethnic Armenian
characters against the backdrop of the American cultural landscape. The
first two novels are set in the Central Valley of California in the
early 1960s, and the third, This Angelic Land, published last May,
is set during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In tapping themes of exile
memory, and assimilation, Janigian uses the Armenian experience as
a lens through which to explore the central American experience. In
that context, critic D. J. Waldie of the Los Angeles Review of Books
has called This Angelic Land, "Today's necessary book."
Holding a PhD in psychology, from 1993 to 2005, Janigian was
senior professor of humanities at Southern California Institute
of Architecture. He has published in genres as diverse as poetry,
social psychology, and design criticism. Aside from his novels,
he is co-author along with April Greiman of Something from Nothing,
a book on the philosophy of graphic design.
Janigian was a contributing writer to West, the Los Angeles Times
Sunday magazine, a finalist for the William Saroyan Fiction Prize and
the recipient of the Anahid Literary Award from Columbia University.
He is a contributing writer for thenervousbreakdown.com, and lives
in Los Angeles.
More information about Janigian's lecture may be had by e-mailing
[email protected].
- See more at:
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2013/02/28/author-aris-janigian-to-speak-at-naasr-on-exile-memory-and-assimilation/#sthash.e7Ge5bLQ.dpuf
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2013/02/28/author-aris-janigian-to-speak-at-naasr-on-exile-memory-and-assimilation/
ARTS | FEBRUARY 28, 2013 1:36 PM
Aris Janigian
BELMONT, Mass. - Writer Aris Janigian, author of the acclaimed novel,
This Angelic Land, will give a lecture titled "Exile, Memory and
Assimilation: The Armenian Experience as the Essential American
Experience," on Thursday, March 14, at 8 p.m. at the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), 395 Concord
Ave. The lecture is co-sponsored by the AGBU-YP, Boston, and NAASR.
This lecture is given in recognition of Emmanuel P. Varandyan
(1902-1988), novelist (The Well of Ararat, The Moon Sails), professor
of English literature at Ohio State University, NAASR Board Member
and benefactor, and tireless advocate for Armenian Studies.
Janigian is considered one of the most important Armenian-American
novelists working today. Each of his three critically-acclaimed novels,
Bloodvine, Riverbig and This Angelic Land, places ethnic Armenian
characters against the backdrop of the American cultural landscape. The
first two novels are set in the Central Valley of California in the
early 1960s, and the third, This Angelic Land, published last May,
is set during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In tapping themes of exile
memory, and assimilation, Janigian uses the Armenian experience as
a lens through which to explore the central American experience. In
that context, critic D. J. Waldie of the Los Angeles Review of Books
has called This Angelic Land, "Today's necessary book."
Holding a PhD in psychology, from 1993 to 2005, Janigian was
senior professor of humanities at Southern California Institute
of Architecture. He has published in genres as diverse as poetry,
social psychology, and design criticism. Aside from his novels,
he is co-author along with April Greiman of Something from Nothing,
a book on the philosophy of graphic design.
Janigian was a contributing writer to West, the Los Angeles Times
Sunday magazine, a finalist for the William Saroyan Fiction Prize and
the recipient of the Anahid Literary Award from Columbia University.
He is a contributing writer for thenervousbreakdown.com, and lives
in Los Angeles.
More information about Janigian's lecture may be had by e-mailing
[email protected].
- See more at:
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2013/02/28/author-aris-janigian-to-speak-at-naasr-on-exile-memory-and-assimilation/#sthash.e7Ge5bLQ.dpuf