Lion Woman's Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir
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ISBN-13:
9781558619364
- Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY, The
- Publication date: 01/01/2016
- Series: Cross-Cultural Memoir Series
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 296
- File size: 4 MB
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Arlene Avakian’s memoir evokes the quarrels, ambition, prejudice, and courage that shaped her coming of age in a family that immigrated to the United States to escape genocide in Turkey. Inspired by her passionate feminism and strengthened within a loving lesbian relationship, Avakian records and re-examines her personal history, discovering the story of her grandmother, which brings with it a legacy of radical politics and a powerful affirmation of ethnic identity.
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Johnnetta B. Cole, former president of Spelman College
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Margaret Randall, author of Walking to the Edge: Essays of Resistance
"An exhilarating, often excruciating record of a woman's struggle for self-discovery and liberation, this remarkable odyssey of a second-generation Armenian woman is told with a novelist's skill, reminding us that America still needs people of vision and determination."
Leo Hamalian, editor of Ararat