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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part41.utf8:165737886:3996
Source Library of Congress
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001 2014018362
003 DLC
005 20150625075908.0
008 140516s2014 nyub 001 0deng
010 $a 2014018362
020 $a9780805097627 (hardback)
020 $z9780805097634 (electronic book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aE184.A7$bT68 2014
082 00 $a327.5610566/2$223
084 $aPOL040020$aBIO026000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aToumani, Meline.
245 10 $aThere was and there was not :$ba journey through hate and possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and beyond /$cMeline Toumani.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company,$c2014.
300 $ax, 286 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a 'love thine enemy' experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use--and abuse--our personal histories. Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey were boycotted. The source of this enmity was the Armenian genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government, and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge it. A century onward, Armenian and Turkish lobbies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince governments, courts and scholars of their clashing versions of history. Frustrated by her community's all-consuming campaigns for genocide recognition, Toumani leaves a promising job at The New York Times and moves to Istanbul. Instead of demonizing Turks, she sets out to understand them, and in a series of extraordinary encounters over the course of four years, she tries to talk about the Armenian issue, finding her way into conversations that are taboo and sometimes illegal. Along the way, we get a snapshot of Turkish society in the throes of change, and an intimate portrait of a writer coming to terms with the issues that drove her halfway across the world. In this far-reaching quest, told with eloquence and power, Toumani probes universal questions: how to belong to a community without conforming to it, how to acknowledge a tragedy without exploiting it, and most importantly how to remember a genocide without perpetuating the kind of hatred that gave rise to it in the first place"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [285]-286)
505 0 $aPart One. Diaspora -- 1. When We Talk About What Happened -- 2. Summer Camp, Franklin, Massachusetts, 1989 -- 3. "How Did They Kill Your Grandparents?" -- 4. A Real Armenian -- 5. False Assumptions -- 6. Turk -- Part Two. Parallel Universe -- 7. "So You Are a Bit Mixed Up, Now" -- 8. "Armenians Are Killers of Children" -- 9. January 19, 2007 -- Part Three. Turkey -- 10. Paradoxes -- 11. Language -- 12. Knowing and Not Knowing -- 13. How to Be a Turk -- 14. Official History -- Part Four. Armenia -- 15. Country on Maps -- 16. By way of Buenos Aires and Berlin -- 17. Family Ties -- Part Five. Resolutions -- 18. Power -- 19. Excess Baggage -- 20. Soccer Diplomacy -- 21. Conclusions.
600 10 $aToumani, Meline.
600 10 $aToumani, Meline$xTravel$zTurkey.
650 0 $aArmenian Americans$xEthnic identity.
650 0 $aArmenian massacres, 1915-1923$xInfluence.
650 0 $aGenocide$zArmenia$xPsychological aspects.
651 0 $aArmenia$xRelations$zTurkey.
651 0 $aTurkey$xRelations$zArmenia.
651 0 $aTurkey$xSocial conditions$y1960-
650 0 $aSocial change$zTurkey.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/627/9780805097627/image/lgcover.9780805097627.jpg