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000001805 245__ $$aArmenian American Women Inhabiting Our Bodies: Gendered and Embodied Ethnicity in Carol Edgarian's Rise the Euphrates
000001805 269__ $$a1995
000001805 270__ $$mjokoomian@ric.edu
000001805 336__ $$aBook Chapter
000001805 520__ $$aThe subject of my paper is Carol Edgarian's recent novel, Rise the Euphrates, which I believe can tell us much about the current condition of Armenian-American women... In keeping with literary and cultural theory of the past twenty years, I favor a more complex model, in which the text and the culture in which it is written are part of a larger system of knowledge called a "discourse." I am using a Michel Foucault's widely known definition of discourse here: a set of rules, conventions, and practices which both enable and set limits upon knowledge and which permeate a wide array of cultural institutions. For instance, when we talk about the female body we might talk about such topics as the differences between femaleness and maleness, the relationship between the body and the mind, or the similarities and differences between the human body and machines. The conventions of the discourse guide us toward these topics and away from others. In other words, the discourse makes some things visible and others things invisible. The most basic premise underlying this interpretive strategy is that all forms of identity are culturally constructed, rather than innate, and that they are always being produced and reproduced by cultural institutions, art forms, relations of power, and language.
000001805 540__ $$aAIWA Press
000001805 6531_ $$aarmenian-american
000001805 6531_ $$afeminism
000001805 6531_ $$afeminist studies
000001805 6531_ $$apower dynamics
000001805 6531_ $$aCarol Edgarian
000001805 6531_ $$aRise the Euphrates
000001805 6531_ $$adiscourse
000001805 6531_ $$afemale body
000001805 655__ $$aText
000001805 691__ $$aGender and Women's Studies Program
000001805 7001_ $$aOkoomian, Janice
000001805 720__ $$aMerguerian, Barbara$$eEditor
000001805 720__ $$aJafferian, Doris$$eEditor
000001805 773__ $$tFaculty Publications
000001805 8564_ $$947e4956f-3428-42cf-a9cc-670a8636106a$$s15801803$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ric.edu/record/1805/files/1995_okoomian.pdf
000001805 982__ $$aFaculty/Staff Scholarship