Editor Aram Mrjoian collects essays from 18 writers, all of whom have Armenian ancestry, that offer different perspectives on ethnicity and identity.
Aram Mrjoian was reading the work of writers who, like him, are of Armenian heritage andRegardless of the type of story being told, Mrjoian saw writers commenting on the Armenian Genocide and ensuing population displacement.
“Of the roughly ten million Armenians on the planet, fewer than 30 percent live in Armenia. Most of us are descendants of survivors of a Genocide who were robbed of everything, including their — our — homeland. We are a diaspora people,” says Bohjalian“Moreover, because there are so few of us on the planet, we are a people who live on a tightrope: if we fall too far to one side, we risk assimilation and the loss of our heritage.
“At that time, too, I was putting everything together, writing my introduction, thinking this changes the way I write an introduction,” Mrjoian recalls, “This changes the way that people are going to read these essays.”
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