We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks
To say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
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...moreI’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
...more“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
...moreHow does a fictional account come to stand in for history?
...moreWhen I was young, my grandma told me that Armenians are distant descendants of Noah.
...moreBut still: A pattern. The trauma had been diluted by time. But, it was still present, still discernible, in my blood.
...moreMeline Toumani discusses her debut, There Was and There Was Not, the rewards and risks of writing a political memoir, and what it means to approach a divided past and future.
...moreThinking my grandfather was from here deepened my experience of Plovdiv. I felt closer to the city, to the people, and to my own family.
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