The Grandchildren
by Ayşe Gül Altınay, Fethiye Çetin (Eds.)
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Fethiye Çetin's groundbreaking memoir My Grandmother provided an alternative track for public debate on the "Armenian issue", steering clear of deadended rhetorical contentions, and relating an irrefutable personal story of grief and silence.
The book's powerful reach led many other "grandchildren" to contact Çetin and share their own memories. The Grandchildren is a collection of intimate, moving interviews conducted with 25 such grandchildren across Turkey, tracing the open wounds of the human catastrophe of 1915. Their stories attest to the claim of the past over our present and future, and provide minor histories that no official discourse is able to account for.
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Author Biography
Ayşe Gül Altınay teaches anthropology, cultural studies, and gender studies at Sabancı University. She is the author of The Myth of the Military-Nation and recipient of the PEN Turkey 2008 Duygu Asena Award for her report Gender Based Violence in Turkey (with Yeşim Arat).
Fethiye Çetin has been active in the freedom of expression and minority rights struggle, as a member of Istanbul Bar Association. She acted as Hrant Dink's lawyer throughout his Agos trials and wrote about her experiences during his murder case under the title I Feel Ashamed. Her bestselling book, My Grandmother, received Prix Armenia 2006 in France.
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English: Transaction
French: Actes Sud
Translation available in English and French
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- Orginal LanguageTurkish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789753427289
- Publication Country or regionTurkey
- FormatPaperback
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleTorunlar
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