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Iranian Armenian Poetry: Sonia Balassanian Crossing Borders of Consciousness
“Border art deals with shifting identities, border crossings, and hybridism,” —Gloria Anzaldúa1Gloria Anzaldúa, “Border Arte:…
Footnotes
- 1Gloria Anzaldúa, “Border Arte: Nepantla, el Lugar de la Frontera,” in The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, ed. AnaLouise Keating (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009), 184.
- 2Sonia Balassanian, “Borders of Identity,” July 14, 2010, www.soniabalassanian.com/borders-of-identity/.
- 3Hrand Ghukasian, “Ishari-yi bi adabiyat-i Aramanih dar Iran” (A Brief Study of Armenian Literature in Iran), Armaghan 39, 9 (1970), 623–4.
- 4Edic Baghdasarian (also known as Ed. Germanic), Nigahi bi tarikh-i Armanian-i Tihran (A Short Glance at the History of Armenians in Tehran) (Tehran: Arax Monthly, 2002), 14-6.
- 5Ghukasian, “Ishari-yi bi adabiyat-i Aramanih dar Iran,” 620-2.
- 6Balassanian, “Borders of Identity.”
- 7Sonia Balassanian, Yirku Girk Banastightsutyun (Two Books of Poems) (Yerevan, Armenia: The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, 2006), 195
- 8Anzaldúa, “Border Arte,” 177.
- 9Balassanian, Yirku Girk Banastightsutyun, 194
- 10Balassanian, Yirku Girk Banastightsutyun, 84.
- 11Balassanian, Yirku Girk Banastightsutyun, 84.
- 12Balassanian, Yirku Girk Banastightsutyun, 139.
- 13Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (New York: Picador, 2003), 40-1.
- 14Balassanian, Yirku Girk Banastightsutyun, 163.
- 15Balassanian, Yirku Girk Banastightsutyun, 183.
- 16Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, 115.