Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon Their Own

ISBN-13: 9781474458573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Tsolin Nalbantian

Opis

This book argues that Armenians around the world in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950sTsolin Nalbandian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946 8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of principally power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Repositioning Armenians in Newly Post-Colonial Nation-States: Lebanon and Syria, 1945/1946 2. The Homeland Debate, Redux: The Political-Cultural Impact of the 1946-1949 Repatriation to Soviet Armenia; 3. Cold War, Bottom-up: The 1956 Catholicos Election; 4 . Making Armenians Lebanese: The 1957 election and the ensuing 1958 conflict; Conculsion; Bibliography.