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UNINA9910820753203321 |
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Autore |
Banean Gaṛnik <1910-1989, > |
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Goodbye, Antoura : a memoir of the Armenian genocide / / Karnig Panian ; foreword by Vartan Gregorian ; translated by Simon Beugekian ; edited by Aram Goudsouzian ; introduction and afterword by Keith David Watenpaugh |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 |
Orphans - Lebanon - ʻAynṭūrah |
World War, 1914-1918 - Atrocities - Turkey |
Armenian massacres survivors - Lebanon |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. CHILDHOOD -- CHAPTER 2. DEPORTATION -- CHAPTER 3. THE DESERT -- CHAPTER 4. THE ORPHANAGE AT HAMA -- CHAPTER 5. THE ORPHANAGE AT ANTOURA -- CHAPTER 6. THE RAIDS -- CHAPTER 7. THE CAVES -- CHAPTER 8. GOODBYE, ANTOURA -- CHAPTER 9. SONS OF A GREAT NATION -- AFTERWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian and 400 Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left to survive at the orphanage without adult care. This memoir offers the extraordinary story of what he endured in those years—as his people were deported from their Armenian community, as his family died in a refugee camp in the deserts of Syria, as he survived hunger and mistreatment in the orphanage. The Antoura orphanage was another project of the Armenian genocide: its administrators, some |
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benign and some cruel, sought to transform the children into Turks by changing their Armenian names, forcing them to speak Turkish, and erasing their history. Panian's memoir is a full-throated story of loss, resistance, and survival, but told without bitterness or sentimentality. His story shows us how even young children recognize injustice and can organize against it, how they can form a sense of identity that they will fight to maintain. He paints a painfully rich and detailed picture of the lives and agency of Armenian orphans during the darkest days of World War I. Ultimately, Karnig Panian survived the Armenian genocide and the deprivations that followed. Goodbye, Antoura assures us of how humanity, once denied, can be again reclaimed. |
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