The Armenian Genocide: Wartime Radicalization or Premeditated Continuum

by Hovannisian,Richard G.

• ISBN13: 9780765803672
• ISBN10: 0765803674
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
History and Philosophy
The Armenian Genocide: Wartime Radicalization or Premeditated Continuum?	p. 3
Philosophy and the Age of Genocide: Reflections on the Armenian Genocide	p. 19
Rethinking Dehumanization in Genocide	p. 27
Testimony: From Document to Monument	p. 41
Literature, Art, Film, and Music
Across the Chasm: From Catastrophe to Creativity	p. 65
The Armenian Genocide in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake	p. 81
Historical Memory: Threading the Contemporary Literature of Armenia	p. 97
Leon Tutundjian-Trauma in Art	p. 121
Historicization of the Armenian Catastrophe: From the Concrete to the Mythical	p. 143
The Diasporic Witness: Reconstruction of Testimony by Contemporary Los Angeles Artists	p. 177
Musical Perspectives on the Armenian Genocide: From Aznavour to "System of a Down"	p. 213
Education
"No Mandate Left Behind"? Genocide Education in the Era of High-Stakes Testing	p. 229
Teaching about the Armenian Genocide	p. 239
Exposure of the Armenian Genocide in Cyberspace: A Comparative Analysis	p. 245
Comparative Dimensions
The Assyrian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and Adjacent Territories	p. 267
Greek Labor Battalions in Asia Minor	p. 275
Comparative Aspects of the Armenian and Jewish Cases of Genocide	p. 291
The Armenian Genocide in the Syrian Press	p. 303
A Legacy of Paradox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide	p. 309
French Society and the Armenian Genocide	p. 325
Historiography and Reconciliation
Turkish Historiography and the Unbearable Weight of 1915	p. 337
Venturing into the Minefield: Turkish Liberal Historiography and the Armenian Genocide	p. 369
Can Memory of Genocide Lead to Reconciliation?	p. 389
Anatomy of Post-Genocide Reconciliation	p. 409
About the Contributors	p. 429
Index	p. 435
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