Forgotten bread

Name: Forgotten bread
ISBN: 9781597140690

first-generation Armenian American writers

par David Kherdian

4/5

(12 votes)

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
Première édition: 2006
Editeurs: Heyday Books
Langue: English

Great reading and a sense of pride that the First-Generation of Armenians contributed so much to literature!.

The often-forgotten Armenian genocides of the 1910s made many of the Armenian people take off for America in fear for their lives at the height of the immigration era. "Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers" is an examination of those first immigrants authors, and the heralds of the atrocities they had witnessed, dictating them to paper to share with both their contemporaries and future generations.

This collection includes snippets by seventeen first generation authors, preluded by seventeen introductions from second generation Armenian-American authors gives a valuable insight into the Armenian mind-frame and world. One of the most constant and steady themes I recognized in each selection was a sense of loneliness, alienation and a desperate search for identity and stability.