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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Utopiana, in collaboration with the Women’s Resource Center in Yerevan and the publisher MetisPresses in Geneva, is happy to announce the publication of Matnashoonch, an anthology of short texts by thirteen women, created in Nancy Agabian’s experimental nonfiction workshop (Summer 2007). The multilingual anthology contains texts by Nancy Agabian, Lara Aharonian, lusine davtyan, Meri Yeranosyan, Laura Tashjian, Byurakn Ishkhanyan, Gohar Khachatryan, Talin Suciyan, Nushik Smbatyan and Naira Pirumyan. The book presentation will take place at the Utopiana and Women’s Resource Center, December 28, at 6pm, Zarubyan 34. Please contact us for more information. <a href="http://www.metispresses.ch/uto_matnas.html">http://www.metispresses.ch/uto_matnas.html</a></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#150110" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 13px; "><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; 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padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Collection <span class="cM">utoPISTES</span></h2></div><div id="texte" style="margin-top: 20px; "><ul class="references" style="list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 3px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(161, 135, 48); "><li style="margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 2px; ">Nancy <span class="nom" style="font-variant: small-caps; ">Agabian</span> (dir.)</li><li style="margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 2px; "><span class="tM" style="font-style: italic; ">Matnashoonch</span>. Genève: MētisPresses, 2007</li><li style="margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 2px; ">14x21 cm, 80 pages</li><li style="margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 2px; "><acronym title="International standard book number" lang="en" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">ISBN</acronym>: 2-940357-09-3</li><li style="margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 2px; ">prix: 10 € / - CHF</li></ul><p>The texts in <span class="tM" style="font-style: italic; ">Matnashoonch</span> are by the members of the women's creative nonfiction writing project, which took place in Yerevan during the summer of 2007.</p><p>In both English and Armenian, including texts in Turkish and French, this collection gives readers a glimpse of women's lives and creativity in contemporary Armenia. From memories of war to feelings about the body, <span class="tM" style="font-style: italic; ">Matnashoonch</span> releases a flood of expression, both relatable and incendiary.</p><h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Introduction</h3><p>The texts in this anthology are by the members of the women's nonfiction writing project, which was funded by a grant by CEC Artslink and sponsored by Utopiana and the Women's Resource Center in Yerevan. It took place from May 17th to July 10th, 2007, meeting on Tuesday and Thursday nights for two to three hours. Facilitated by Nancy Agabian, it included thirteen women who met to discuss women's literature in translation, to write, and to give criticism to each other. We talked about issues of nonfiction and general ideas on creating writing based on our own lives. We discussed issues that aren't often spoken openly in Armenian culture, e.g., of women's roles within the family and women's sexuality; we spoke of memory and the imagination; we defined the difference between witnessing and observation, what it means to be an authority, and what the truth means. Some of the texts in this volume were created within the workshop, from a writing prompt, or during the time the workshop took place. Some of these texts were created before the start of the workshop, in some cases a few years before, but the writer had never sat in a room with a group of people to tell her what they thought.</p><p>Our members came from all parts of society, from Yerevan and the Diaspora, and this diversity enriched our discussions and thoughts and eventually our writing. For example, a session on writing about trauma revealed a great divide in the way that Diasporan women and local Armenian women think about the way the Armenian Genocide has affected our communities. We were helped to speak across this divide, and to communicate other experiences, with the help of our translator/ interpreter, Christine Bessalian. Though most members were multilingual and understood both English and Armenian, not all could speak with each other without Christine's help. The workshop was experimental in the sense that it took place among multiple tongues; this slowed down our conversations, but it also enriched our sense of language. The texts in this book appear in English and Armenian, French and Turkish. The work of each writer is presented first in the language that she wrote in, followed by the translation.</p><p>We hope that this text will give readers a glimpse of women's lives and creativity in contemporary Armenia, something that is particularly necessary right now, as women's roles are changing and their voices aren't often heard. ÇRainÈ, the collaborative text in the middle of this volume, was created on Thursday, June 21st, 2007, when the workshop went out on the streets of Yerevan to write our observations. The various approaches, styles and languages (we chose not to translate these texts) give a snapshot image of our diversity of views at a particular moment in time.</p><p>We also hope this book will encourage more women to write their stories: one of our earliest assignments was to write for ten minutes a day and to report what happened. Most found that ten minutes was not enough time, with the result that many chose to write for longer sessions, either every day or a few times a week. Some of the texts from this book appear online at the Utopiana website. If you wish to comment on them, please visit <a href="http://www.utopiana.am">www.utopiana.am</a> and look for Armenian Women Writing.</p><p>We titled this book <span class="tM" style="font-style: italic; ">Matnashoonch</span> to signal an argent itch in our fingers to write our stories.</p><p>Nancy Agabian</p><p><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><p><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0e0009" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0e0009">UTOPIANA</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0e0009" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0e0009">Anna Barseghian,Stefan Kristensen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0e0009" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0e0009">Quai Capo d'Istria 9,1205 Genève,Suisse</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0e0009" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0e0009">0041(0)22 3209830, 0041(0)79 8249313</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0e0009" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0e0009">Zaroubyan 34, Erevan, Arménie</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0e0009" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0e0009">t.00374(10)565026, t.m. 00374(0)93518184</font></div></p></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; "><div style="color: rgb(21, 1, 16); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br></div></span></span></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></body></html>