Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915

ISBN-13: 9780367085834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust yet other preceding episodes of mass violence are of great significance. Taking a transnational and transhistorical approach, this volume redresses and replaces the silencing of the Armenian Genocide.

Spis treści

Part 1: New Methodologies and Directions in Armenian and Genocide Studies  1. Armenian Genocide Studies: Development as a Field, Historiographic Appraisal and The Road Ahead  2. Eastern Turkey: The Known, The Unknown, The Disputed and The Desired  3. Time and Space Problematic in Studying Genocide: The Armenian Case  4. A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide as a perpetrator of the Holocaust: The Case of Eghia Hovhanessian  Part 2: Repertoires of Violence and Demographic Engineering  5. Transmitting Ottomanism: Revolution, Diaspora, and the Legacies of Imperial Reform  6. Toward a more holistic history of demographic engineering in the Late Ottoman Empire: Possibilities for a New History?  7. The Multiple Narratives of the Assyrian Genocide  8. Colonial Pragmatism and Population Transfer: German perception of ethnic violence during the First World War and the Armenian Genocide  9. Challenges of Humanism: Johannes Lepsius (1858-1926)  Part 3: Aesthetics, Linguistic Pluralism and Memory  10. Another Pluralism: Reading Dostoevsky across The Sea of Marmara  11.  Between Communication and Miscommunication: An Essay on the Role and Representation of Language in Survivor Testimonies  12. Storation: A Small Guide to Undoing Restoration  Part 4: Gender and Sexuality  13. Finding Place in Exile: Queer Armenian Voices Speak  14. The Space between Us: Feminist Conversations on Genocide, Survival and Gender  Part 5: Higher Education and Genocide Commemorations in Contemporary Turkey  15. Tosun Terzioğlu's Speech on the Groundbreaking Conference in 2005  16. Skeletons in the Turkish Closet: Remembering the Armenian Genocide  17. Commemorating the Armenian Genocide: Spatial Politics of Memory in Post-Imperial Istanbul  Part 6: Afterword