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Author Harootunian, Harry D., 1929- author.

Title The unspoken as heritage : the Armenian genocide and its unaccounted lives / Harry Harootunian.

Publication Info. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2019.

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 GDL Central Library Genocide Memorial Collection    92 Harootunian Family HAR    Available
Description 178 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-174) and index.
Contents The unrealized everyday: by way of an introduction -- Unnoticed lives / Unanswered questions -- Traces of a vanished everyday -- History's interruption: dispossession and genocide -- House of strangers / Diminished Lives -- Epilogue: returning to Ani.
Summary In the 1910s historian Harry Harootunian's parents Ohannes and Vehanush escaped the mass slaughter of the Armenian genocide, making their way to France, where they first met, before settling in suburban Detroit. Although his parents rarely spoke of their families and the horrors they survived, the genocide and their parents' silence about it was a permanent backdrop to the Harootunian children's upbringing. In The Unspoken as Heritage Harootunian-for the first time in his distinguished career-turns to his personal life and family heritage to explore the genocide's multigenerational afterlives that remain at the heart of the Armenian diaspora. Drawing on novels, anecdotes, and reports, Harootunian presents a composite sketch of the everyday life of his parents, from their childhood in East Anatolia to the difficulty of making new lives in the United States. A meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival-in which Harootunian attempts to come to terms with a history that is just beyond his reach-The Unspoken as Heritage demonstrates how the genocidal past never leaves the present, even in its silence. -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Harootunian, Harry D., 1929- -- Family -- Biography.
Armenian Americans -- United States -- Biography.
Armenian massacres survivors -- United States -- Biography.
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.
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