Armenian Mediterranean : words and worlds in motion / Kathryn Babayan, Michael Pifer, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Babayan, Kathryn, 1960- editor.

Pifer, Michael, 1985- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Mediterranean perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Mediterranean Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenians--Study and teaching.

Armenians.

Historiography.

Armenia--Historiography.

Armenia.

Armenia--Study and teaching.

Mediterranean Region.

Armenians--Historiography.

Armenians--Mediterranean Region.

Study skills.

Physical Description:

xxi, 337 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This book rethinks the Armenian people as significant actors in the context of Mediterranean and global history. Spanning a millennium of cross-cultural interaction and exchange across the Mediterranean world, essays move between connected histories, frontier studies, comparative literature, and discussions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and visual culture. Contributors dismantle narrow, national ways of understanding Armenian literature; propose new frameworks for mapping the post-Ottoman Mediterranean world; and navigate the challenges of writing national history in a globalized age. A century after the Armenian genocide, this book reimagines the borders of the "Armenian," pointing to a fresh vision for the field of Armenian studies that is omnivorously comparative, deeply interconnected, and rich with possibility--back cover.

Contents:

Introduction : a movable Armenia / Michael Pifer

The age of the Gharīb : strangers in the medieval Mediterranean / Michael Pifer

Past the Mediterranean and Iran : a comparative study of Armenia as an Islamic frontier, first/seventh to fifth/eleventh centuries / Alison Vacca

A fish out of water? Armenia(ns) and the Mediterranean / Sergio La Porta

From "autonomous" to "interactive" histories : world history's challenge to Armenian studies / Sebouh David Aslanian

Mapping Jerusalem : re-reading the city in the context of the medieval Mediterranean / Tamar M. Boyadjian

Between Anatolia and the Balkans : tracing Armenians in a post-Ottoman order / Hakem Al-Rustom

Armeno-Turkish writing and the question of hybridity / Murat Cankara

Wandering minstrels, moving novels : the case of Khach'atur Abovean's Wounds of Armenia / Vahram Danielyan

Weaving images : textile, displacement, and reframing the borders of visual culture / Marie-Aude Baronian / Diasporic Flânerie : From Armenian Ruinenlust to Armenia's walkscapes / David Kazanjian

Spaces of difference, spaces of belonging : negotiating Armenianness in Lebanon and France / Vahe Sahakyan

Contemporary Armenian drama and world literature / Myrna Douzjian

How to write the history of the Third Republic or how not to write it / G.J. Libaridian

The Mediterranean is Armenian / Karla Mallette.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783319728643

3319728644

OCLC:

1035633117