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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
Offers a unique analysis of the juxtaposition of the Armerian Genocide process and the transgenerational consequences
Explores the concept of transgeneration trauma and the implications of this on identity and community
Examines life stories from interviewees, as well as literature and film photography
