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DRAMA: At household in Exile; The Archetype of the Diasporan Armenian Reemerge
in Reine Barteve's L'Armenoche

L'Armenoche, playwright Reine Barteve's chilling commentary forward life
in exile, is a radical departure from the first generation hero that
writers like Shahan Shahnur depicted in the decades after the Genocide.

Whereas the melancholic Bedros in Shahnur's 1929 seminal novel Retreat
Without ballad represents resignation, Barteve's heroine Marie opposes
life head on.

On the undivided hand, Bedros follows the path of dissolution and assimilation.
On the other, Marie embarks upon a ...

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