- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Editor’s Note
- Introduction
- How Armenian Funeral Halva Helped My Family Find Home in America
- Hava Nagila
- “Where Are You From? No, Where Are You Really From?”
- An Inter/Racial Love History
- Language Lessons
- A Good, Solid Name
- My Armenia: On Imagining and Seeing
- Inside the Walls: Reflections on Revolutionary Armenians
- Going Home Again
- Lost and Found
- A Letter to My Great-Grandson
- Open Wounds
- Բառէրը—the Words
- The Road to Belonging
- Image
- The Story of My Body
- Valley View: An Armenian Diasporic Account in Lieu of a Glendale Biennial Review
- Perspectives on Artsakh from a Black Armenian Angeleno
- We Are All Armenian
- Acknowledgments
- Reading List
- Notes on the Contributors