ABSTRACT
The group of Armenian-American artists and authors is composed of the children and grandchildren of survivors. There has been a surge in the number of artistic works produced by a generation of Armenian-Americans relating to the rupture created by the Event of the Armenian Catastrophe which began to appear in the mid-1980s and continued to build during the following two decades. The identities of the artists, both on a personal and national level, are constructed through historicization of inherited fragmented narratives, as well as the noticeable gaps between those fragments. When the artists and characters of both works enter legendary lands of bygone events, similar trajectories of historicization become integrated within the landscape of the mythical. As for historical memory, collective memory is formed when memory is detached from its social setting and is embedded within the structure of historical records and details. Memories and testimonies of the characters are concrete.
