The Women of our Awakening
A HISTORY OF ARMENIAN WOMEN’S WRITING: 1880-1922 301pp. Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2003 If you are a diasporan who attended an Armenian high school, you probably learnt about the Awakening [Zartonk], in your Armenian literature class, possibly read a short story from Zabel Yesayian and/or Sibyl, and the name Srpuhi Dussap may ring a distant bell. If you were instructed in the Eastern Armenian tradition, you will surely be familiar with the proletarian poetry of Shushanik Kurghinian....