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We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora

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Availability:In StockContributor:Aram Mrjoian (Editor)Publish date:2023-03-14Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477326794ISBN-10:1477326790UPC:9781477326794Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, EssaysBook Topic:Middle Eastern StudiesSize:9.06 x 5.91 x 1.02 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCY15NZS3M

A collection of essays about Armenian identity and belonging in the diaspora.

In the century since the Armenian Genocide, Armenian survivors and their descendants have written of a vast range of experiences using storytelling and activism, two important aspects of Armenian culture. Wrestling with questions of home and self, diasporan Armenian writers bear the burden of repeatedly telling their history, as it remains widely erased and obfuscated. Telling this history requires a tangled balance of contextualizing the past and reporting on the present, of respecting a culture even while feeling lost within it.

We Are All Armenian brings together established and emerging Armenian authors to reflect on the complications of Armenian ethnic identity today. These personal essays elevate diasporic voices that have been historically silenced inside and outside of their communities, including queer, multiracial, and multiethnic writers. The eighteen contributors to this contemporary anthology explore issues of displacement, assimilation, inheritance, and broader definitions of home. Through engaging creative nonfiction, many of them question what it is to be Armenian enough inside an often unacknowledged community.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477326794ISBN-10:1477326790UPC:9781477326794Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, EssaysBook Topic:Middle Eastern StudiesSize:9.06 x 5.91 x 1.02 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCY15NZS3M

Aram Mrjoian is an editor-at-large at the Chicago Review of Books, an associate fiction editor at Guernica, and a 2022 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow.


Publisher: University of Texas Press

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