The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical LegaciesRichard G. Hovannisian World War I was a watershed, a defining moment, in Armenian history. Its effects were unprecedented in that it resulted in what no other war, invasion, or occupation had achieved in three thousand years of identifiable Armenian existence. This calamity was the physical elimination of the Armenian people and most of the evidence of their ever having lived on the great Armenian Plateau, to which the perpetrator side soon gave the new name of Eastern Anatolia. The bearers of an impressive martial and cultural history, the Armenians had also known repeated trials and tribulations, waves of massacre, captivity, and exile, but even in the darkest of times there had always been enough remaining to revive, rebuild, and go forward. This third volume in a series edited by Richard Hovannisian, the dean of Armenian historians, provides a unique fusion of the history, philosophy, literature, art, music, and educational aspects of the Armenian experience. It further provides a rich storehouse of information on comparative dimensions of the Armenian genocide in relation to the Assyrian, Greek and Jewish situations, and beyond that, paradoxes in American and French policy responses to the Armenian genocides. The volume concludes with a trio of essays concerning fundamental questions of historiography and politics that either make possible or can inhibit reconciliation of ancient truths and righting ancient wrongs. |
Contents
Wartime Radicalization | 3 |
Reflections on | 19 |
Rethinking Dehumanization in Genocide | 27 |
From Document to Monument | 41 |
From Catastrophe to Creativity | 65 |
The Armenian Genocide in James Joyces Finnegans Wake | 81 |
Threading the Contemporary | 97 |
Léon TutundjianTRAuma in ART | 121 |
Greek Labor Battalions in Asia Minor | 275 |
Comparative Aspects of the Armenian and Jewish | 291 |
The Armenian Genocide in the Syrian Press | 303 |
U S Foreign Policy and the | 309 |
French Society and the Armenian Genocide | 325 |
Turkish Historiography and the Unbearable Weight of 1915 | 337 |
Turkish Liberal Historiography | 369 |
Can Memory of Genocide Lead to Reconciliation? | 389 |
Reconstruction of | 177 |
No Mandate Left Behind? Genocide Education | 229 |
Teaching about the Armenian Genocide | 239 |
The Assyrian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and | 267 |
Anatomy of PostGenocide Reconciliation | 409 |
About the Contributors | 429 |
Index | 435 |
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The Armenian Genocide: Wartime Radicalization Or Premeditated Continuum Richard G. Hovannisian No preview available - 2006 |