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Our Catalogue: Ancestral Voices: Identity, Ethnic Roots and a Genocide Remembered |
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Ancestral Voices:
Identity, Ethnic Roots and a Genocide Remembered
by Alan Whitehorn
ISBN 978-0-9734568-2-0
2007 / 128 pp. / 6 x 9 / paper / $12.95
This collection of personal and political poems follows the author's existential journey. The book opens with a description of life in the Armenian diaspora and then takes the reader on an odyssey to the author's ancestral homeland. The poems provide an intellectual journey to the four points of the Armenian compass, where history and remembrance of the 1915 genocide dominate the landscape. The direction of contemporary Armenian society is also explored. The book closes with reflections on the quest for identity in a complex and cosmopolitan world.
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About the Author
Alan Whitehorn, the grandson of an orphan of the Armenian genocide, is an Armenian-Canadian author and academic. He is a Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada and a cross-appointed professor with Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Whitehorn is also an Associate of the Institute for Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He was research director on David Lewis' memoirs, The Good Fight, and the first holder of the J.S. Woodsworth chair in Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
In addition to his many publications on Canadian politics - including Canadian Socialism: Essays on the CCF-NDP; Political Activists: The NDP in Convention (co-author with Keith Archer); Party Politics in Canada, 8th ed. (co-editor with Hugh G. Thorburn) - Dr. Whitehorn has authored a number of articles, chapters and poems on the Armenian genocide, including the book The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the Inertia of Indifference (co-author with Lorne Shirinian). Professor Whitehorn's previous book of poetry is entitled Poems: Political and Philosophical.
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Cover art by Nora Patrich
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