The Transgenerational Consequences of the Armenian Genocide

Near the Foot of Mount Ararat
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-69259-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 291 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide

This book brings together the Armenian Genocide process and its transgenerational outcome, which are often juxtaposed in existing scholarship, to ask how the Armenian Genocide is conceptualized and placed within diasporic communities. Taking a dual approach to answer this question, Anthonie Holslag studies the cultural expression of violence during the genocidal process itself, and in the aftermath for the victims. By using this approach, this book allows us to see comparatively how genocide in diasporic communities in the Netherlands, London and the US is encapsulated in an historic narrative. It paints a picture of the complexity of genocidal violence itself, but also in its transgenerational and non-spatial consequences, raising new questions of how violence can be perpetuated or interlocked with the discourse and narratives of the victims, and how the violence can be relived.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holslag, Anthonie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Oral History (Zeitzeugen)
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1: The Destruction of an Identity.- Chapter 2. Remembrance of a Genocide.- Chapter 3. The Great Diasporia.- Chapter 4. The Loss of Identity.- Chapter 5. - Intermezzo: “Komitas: Embodied Silence”.- Part 2: Reconstruction of an Identity.- Chapter 6. Between Suffering and Resurrection.- Chapter 7. The Struggle over Identity.- Chapter 8.  Jermag Charrt.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Near the Foot of Mt. Ararat.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Anthonie Holslag is Researcher at the Amsterdam Research School for Heritage and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has previously published a number of articles regarding the aftermath of the Armenian genocide.