Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter by Nancy Agabian (English)

Description: Me as Her Again by Nancy Agabian Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Cultural Writing. Biography. Middle Eastern Studies. In this memoir, Nancy Agabian tells stories of growing pains, family tensions, and buried pasts. In a narrative that braids together different times and places and shifts between comic and dramatic registers, Agabian tells us how, as a child, she learns to juggle roles in response to competing pressures to fit in as an American while maintaining her Armenian heritage. At home, she struggles with her grandmother's old ideologies, arguments between her parents, and heated discussions about race and sexuality. In her twenties, Agabian moves to Hollywood and becomes a performance artist and begins to discover herself sexually, dating both men and women. After hiding her autobiographical shows from her relatives, she finally decides to confront her family history and takes a trip to Armenia with her artist aunt, during which she finds she must reckon with painful family histories involving displacement and genocide. Publisher Description Untangling knots of personal identity and family history, Nancy Agabian deftly weaves a narrative alternately comical and wrenching. Moving between memories of growing up Armenian and American in Walpole, Massachusetts, and her later experiences at Wellesley College, then Hollywood and, finally, Turkey, Agabian offers an illuminating meditation on the sometimes bizarre entanglement of individual desire (sexual and otherwise) in the web of family life and history. At the heart of this unraveling is a grappling with the history of trauma and upheaval experienced by her paternal grandmother, who survived the Armenian Genocide, and the legacy of that wounding experience for Agabian and her extended family.Whats so refreshing about Agabians prose is her marvelously open, daring, and honest inquiry into the self. Our "enfant terrible"-she has yet again managed to capture us with her quirky, brilliant stories.- Shushan Avagyan, author ofGirk-anvernagir; translator ofI Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik KurghinianMy favorite song from Nancy Agabians improbably vivid "Guitar Boy" punk rock period a decade ago was the genius anthem "I Dont Want to be a Victim Anymore." Though as she noted at the time, when youre a mousily timid, family-mired, Armenian bisexual artist, not tending toward victimhood isnt all that easy. But you know what? By the end of this splendidly engrossing memory chronicle, shes pulled it off. Shes no victim. What she is is funny, smart, generous and wise. And shes my hero.- Lawrence Weschler, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner,Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences Author Biography Nancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a mixed genre collection of poems, short prose, and performance texts and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books, 2008), a memoir. Both books center around the intersections of queerness and Armenian identity. Me as her again was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize. In 2021, Nancy received the Jeanne Crdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction from Lambda Literary. Her novel The Fear of Large and Small Nations (Nauset Press, 2023), a multilayered epic on Armenian diaspora-homeland relationships, was honored as a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction. She is currently working on a personal essay collection, In-Between Mouthfuls, which frames liminal spaces of identity within causes for social justice. Nancys essays have been published in Ararat, The Brooklyn Rail, Mr. Bellers Neighborhood, Kweli Journal, The Margins, Pangyrus, and Women Studies Quarterly (The Feminist Press) and the anthologies We Are All Armenian (UT Press) and No You Tell It (Palm Circle Press). Nancy has an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia Universitys School of the Arts and has been teaching in the Writing Program at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University since 2009. As a community writing workshop leader, Nancy has worked with multicultural groups in Los Angeles, women writers in Yerevan, SWANA writers online, and immigrants & first-generation writers in Queens, New York, where she lived for several years. From 2017-2018 she led the Creative Writing from Queer Resistance workshop at the Leslie Lohman Museum in NYC. She serves on the board of the International Armenian Literary Alliance. Details ISBN 1879960796 ISBN-13 9781879960794 Title Me as Her Again Author Nancy Agabian Format Paperback Year 2008 Pages 262 Publisher Aunt Lute Books GE_Item_ID:19716655; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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