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100 1 Toumani, Meline,|eauthor.
245 10 There was and there was not|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic
resource]|ba journey through hate and possibility in
Turkey, Armenia, and beyond /|cMeline Toumani.
264 1 New York :|bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company,
|c2014.
300 1 online resource
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500 Electronic book.
500 Includes index.
505 0 Part 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.
520 2 "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.
533 Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cHenry Holt and Co.
|d2014|nAvailable via World Wide Web.
600 10 Toumani, Meline.
600 10 Toumani, Meline|xTravel|zTurkey.
650 0 Armenian Americans|xEthnic identity.
650 0 Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923|xInfluence.
650 0 Genocide|zArmenia|xPsychological aspects.
650 0 Social change|zTurkey.
651 0 Armenia|xRelations|zTurkey.
651 0 Turkey|xRelations|zArmenia.
651 0 Turkey|xSocial conditions|y1960-
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