Black dog of fate : a memoir

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Black dog of fate : a memoir

Peter Balakian

BasicBooks, c1997

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Map of Armenia from 500 BC to present on endpapers

Includes bibliographical references (p. [292])

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Black Dog of Fate is set in the affluent New Jersey suburbs where Balakianthe firstborn son of his generationgrew up in a close, extended family. At the center of what was a quintessential American baby boom childhood lay the dark specter of a trauma his forebears had experiencedthe Ottoman Turkish governments extermination of more than a million Armenians in 1915, the centurys first genocide. In a story that climaxes to powerful personal and moral revelations, Balakian traces the complex process of discovering the facts of his peoples history and the horrifying aftermath of the Turkish governments campaign to cover up one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity. }His visions are burninghis poetry heartbreaking, wrote Elie Wiesel of American poet Peter Balakian. Now, in elegant prose, the prize-winning poet who James Dickey called an extraordinary talent has written a compelling memoir about growing up American in a family that was haunted by a past too fraught with terror to be spoken of openly. Black Dog of Fate is set in the affluent New Jersey suburbs where Balakianthe firstborn son of his generationgrew up in a close, extended family. At the center of what was a quintessential American baby boom childhood lay the dark specter of a trauma his forebears had experiencedthe Ottoman Turkish governments extermination of more than a million Armenians in 1915, the centurys first genocide. In a story that climaxes to powerful personal and moral revelations, Balakian traces the complex process of discovering the facts of his peoples history and the horrifying aftermath of the Turkish governments campaign to cover up one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity.In describing his awakening to the facts of history, Balakian introduces us to a remarkable family of matriarchs and merchants, physicians, a bishop, and his aunts, two well-known figures in the world of literature. The unforgettable central figure of the story is Balakians grandmother, a survivor and widow of the Genocide who speaks in fragments of metaphor and myth as she cooks up Armenian delicacies, plays the stock market, and keeps track of the baseball stats of her beloved Yankees. The book is infused with the intense and often comic collision between this familys ancient Near Eastern traditions and the American pop culture of the 50s and 60s.Balakian moves with ease from childhood memory, to history, to his ancestors lives, to the story of a poets coming of age. Written with power and grace, Black Dog of Fate unfolds like a tapestry its tale of survival against enormous odds. Through the eyes of a poet, here is the arresting story of a familys journey from its haunted past to a new life in a new world. }

目次

  • Grandmother
  • Black Dog of Fate
  • The Woman in Blue
  • Freedom, New Jersey
  • Mother
  • An Armenian Jew in Suburbia
  • Tahn on Crabtree Lane
  • Threads of Silk
  • Father
  • Saturday Autumn I
  • Istanbul Was Constantinople
  • The Other Side of the Bridge
  • A Creature of RocknRoll
  • Saturday Autumn II
  • Chain Of Words
  • Benzene Rinsings from the Moon
  • The Sioux Chief
  • Kaddish
  • A Princess in Byzantium
  • Owls Flying in the Dark
  • Words for My Grandmother
  • Bloody News
  • Before the Nazis
  • The Murder of a Nation
  • Fall from the Clouds
  • A Thousand Shoes
  • A Document and a Photograph
  • Doveys Story
  • The Cemetery of Our Ancestors
  • Reading a Skeleton
  • Commemoration
  • Times Square
  • The Open Wound
  • The Fact of a House.

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