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Harry Harootunian
Duke University Press

The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives

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AuthorHarry Harootunian
PublisherDuke University Press
PublishedNov 09 2019
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139781478005100
Dimensions9.2 X 6.2 X 0.6 inches
Weight 0.97 pounds
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CategoriesBiography & Autobiography > General
LanguageEnglish

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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.

Author Bio

Harry Harootunian is professor emeritus of New York University and his research interests include early modern and modern Japanese history, and historical theory.

Professor Harootunian received his B.A. from Wayne State (1951), M.A. in Far Eastern Studies and Ph.D. 1958 in History from Michigan.

His prolific publications include

History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice and the Question of the Everyday Life (Columbia UP, 2000),

Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Commodity in Interwar Japan (Princeton UP, 2000),

Japan in the World, ed. with Masao Miyoshi (Duke UP, 1993), and

Postmodernism in Japan, with Masao Miyoshi (Duke UP, 1989).

Professor Harootunian was formerly the Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, the Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, editor of Journal for Asian Studies, and co-editor of Critical Inquiry.

Source: NYU Arts & Science

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