Migirdic Margosyan, in his autobiographical novel "Soyle Margos Nerelisene [Tell me Margos, where are you fromo]," narrates his childhood and his surroundings through multiple voices including his and his neighbors'. Polyphonic construction of his memoir is analogous to his fragmented identity as an Armenian in South Eastern Turkey, living in a multiethnic environment that included Armenians and Kurds under a Turkish government. Margosyan's memoir as a witness account challenges official narratives of Turkish national historiography from the margins. Thus analyzing memoirs that are marginalized within the context of national histories provides ample tools to examine the underlying claims of "truth" of history, which represents the past and shapes the present, with a consideration of the discipline of history as the most effective claim of constructing the "true" accounts of the past. I am focusing on this paper (1) discussing the ways that memoirs by the subaltern have the potential to challenge the hegemonic nature of historical writing about national subjects. (2) raising questions on whether the genealogical approach can offer an understanding for past and present, such as how we can reconcile the past by distinguishing the agents of history and subjects of itd What kind of role does the dichotomy between history and memory play in claiming to represent "truth" and (3) arguing that autobiographical fictions and memoirs by the subaltern provide strategies to scrutinize the myth of a unified autobiographical "I" analogous to "traditional" historical narrative; that is to say the illusion of a unified, progressive and secular nature of modern subject emerge in multiple narratives as in history and autobiographies. With a focus on the polyphonic nature of Margosyan's narrative construction of a child's perspective in a multi-ethnic, multilingual surrounding, paper raises necessary question in order to analyze memoirs by the subaltern.