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Tigris, Tigris, burning bright.

Publication: The Nation
Publication Date: 13-DEC-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1070 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Tigris, Tigris, burning bright.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

Article Excerpt
Hamilton, NY

* I was delighted to read Meline Toumani's affirmative opinion about my book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response ["The Burden of Memory," Sept. 20], but I find her depiction of Armenian diasporan culture lacking in intellectual understanding and her assessment of the relationship between the Armenian genocide and Armenian diasporan culture shallow and morally skewed.

Toumani states that my book will become an "artifact in the fetish-culture of diasporan Armenians." But fetishizing commodities is different from fetishizing a scholarly book. To imply that a culture can fetishize the extermination of nearly 1.5 million people and the destruction of a homeland of 2,500 years is to trivialize genocide and distort the Marxian and anthropological notion of fetishism. Toumani also suggests that the Armenian-American quest for Armenian genocide recognition is the lifeblood of the Armenian diaspora, that it is a glorying in victimhood and that this victimhood is inauthentic because later generations of Armenians didn't...

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