Armenians beyond diaspora : making Lebanon their own / Tsolin Nalbantian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nalbantian, Tsolin, author.

Series:

Alternative histories.

Alternative histories : narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenians--Lebanon--Ethnic identity.

Armenians.

Armenians--Lebanon--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This book argues that Armenians around the world - in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s. Tsolin Nalbantian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FIGURES

1 REPOSITIONING ARMENIANS IN NEWLY POST-COLONIAL NATION-STATES: LEBANON AND SYRIA, 1945–1946

2 THE HOMELAND DEBATE, REDUX: THE POLITICAL–CULTURAL IMPACT OF THE 1946–1949 REPATRIATION TO SOVIET ARMENIA

3 COLD WAR, BOTTOM-UP: THE 1956 CATHOLICOS ELECTION

4 MAKING ARMENIANS LEBANESE: THE 1957 ELECTION AND THE ENSUING 1958 CONFLICT

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-220) and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-5859-9

1-4744-5858-0

1-4744-8070-5

OCLC:

1306541715