Mobile Subjectivity and Micro-territories

[Introduction]: “The authors in the previous section examined some of the ways in which Egoyan has made representational technologies the central focus of much of his work, analyzing how his characters actively use, adapt, or transform media technology to manage their needs and desires, and considered some of the auratic and redemptive possibilities embedded in these mediations. The authors in this section explore the ways in which Egoyan’s and his family’s experiences of the Armenian diaspora have likewise been a central preoccupation. They argue that Egoyan’s works both overtly and covertly take up the question of what it means to be Armenian and to bear the heritage of what Marie-Aude Baronian calls the “legacies of denial and forgetting” surrounding the Armenian genocide. At the same time, they also consider how working through the complexities of his cultural origins has lead Egoyan to inquire into broader and more universal issues such as the social, political, and historical tensions, contradictions, and paradoxes characterizing the global historical experiences of displacement and deterritorialization.”