After The Ottomans (genocide's Long Shadow And Armenian Resilience)

Edited by Kieser Hans-Lukas; Edited by Mouradian, Khatchig; Edited by Bayraktar, Seyhan
Description:

This book deals with the lasting impact and the formative legacy of removal, dispossession and the politics of genocide in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. For understanding contemporary Turkey and the neighboring region, it is important to revisit the massive transformation of the late-Ottoman world caused by persistent warfare between 1912 and 1922.

This fourth volume of a series focusing on the “Ottoman Cataclysm” looks at the century-long consequences and persistent implications of the Armenian genocide. It deals with the actions and words of the Armenians as they grappled with total destruction and tried to emerge from under it. Eleven scholars of history, anthropology, literature and political science explore the Ottoman Armenians not only as the major victims of the First World War and the post-war treaties, but also as agents striving for survival, writing history, transmitting the memory and searching for justice.

Table of contents:

List of Contributors
Introduction (SB, HLK, KM)
Part I. Dismantling Silences and Doctrines, Telling Truths
1. Dismantling Silence: Remembrance and Action under the Genocide’s Long Shadow (Khatchig Mouradian)
2. Return of the Suppressed: Atatürk''s History Doctrine, Islam and the Armenian Genocide (Hans-Lukas Kieser)
3. The past, the present and the politics of memory (Seyhan Bayraktar)
Part II. Armenian Writing as Agency
4. The Armenian Writers Faced with Writing about the Medz Yeghern (Valentina Calzolari)
5. Roupen Der Minasian: Three Kinds of Agency (Elke Hartmann)
6. Hrant Dink and Turkey’s Armenian Problem (Toros Korkmaz)
Part III. Being Armenian in Turkey
7. Auto-da-fe in Istanbul: Nationalist Turkey’s first denialist crisis (1935)
(Emmanuel Szurek)
8. Being Armenian in Turkey: The Story of the Papazyan Family (Öykü Gürpinar)
9. A repatriation that never took place: The Soviet Armenian call for immigration of 1946 and its impact in Turkey (Talin Suciyan)
10.Genocide Commemorations in Turkey: A Social Identity Perspective(Nanore Barsoumian)
Afterword (Raymond Kévorkian)
Index

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''After the Ottomans: Genocide''s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience'' is a highly relevant book whose publication in the year of the Republic of Turkey''s centenary could not have been more timely. The contributions are a reminder against genocide silence and denial, giving a voice to the all too often marginalized, showing that Armenians were not only victims of the genocide, but also survivors and agents of their history, who are in search of justice.
Review quote:
In emphasizing the myriad forms of Armenian agency over the course of the past century, this volume explores an underappreciated aspect of the politics, history, and legacies of the Armenian Genocide. Guided by an eminent trio of editors, this volume productively brings together social science and humanities perspectives. In its breadth and sustained emphasis on Armenian resilience, it is a valuable companion to Richard Hovannisian’s essential series of edited volumes on the Armenian Genocide.
Biographical note:

Hans-Lukas Kieser is a historian at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Seyhan Bayraktar is a political scientist and PhD-coordinator at the Graduate School of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, USA and the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress.

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Leading specialists examine the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide