Lives in Fragments : Self-Narrative Sources and Biographical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yetkin, Eren Yıldırım.

Contributor:

Yetkin, Eren Yildirim

Maksudyan, Nazan

Çelik, Adnan.

Series:

New Directions in Turkish Studies

New Directions in Turkish Studies ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

An examination of life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide. Offers a nuanced understanding of genocide's complex historical and social dimensions, and reflects on the history and memory of genocidal violence.

Contents:

Lives in Fragments

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Biographies in Genocide

Part I. Methodological Questions on Biography, History, and Memory

Chapter 1. Methodological Questions on the Intersection of Biography and Memory

Chapter 2. Biographical Approaches to the Study of the Armenian Genocide

Part II. Lives in Genocide

Foreword to Part II

Chapter 3. The Library and the Survivor: Writing in Exile after the Armenian Genocide

Chapter 4. A Biographical Approach to Genocidal Ruination: Knowledge, Nature, and Dispossession in Johannes Jakob Manissadjian's (1862-1942) Lifework

Chapter 5. Sahag II Khabayan

Chapter 6. Remembering the Survivors by Name: From Angora to Philadelphia, the Perpetual Exile of Sourpik Tekian (1868-1957)

Chapter 7. Reviving the Past: Postgenocide Armenian Memory through Song, Dance, and Photography

Part III. Afterlives of Violence and Genocide

Foreword to Part III. Reconsidering "Biography" under Conditions

Chapter 8. Dönme, Dönek, Double: On the (Epistemologically Troubling) Figure of the Islamized Armenian

Chapter 9. "The Truth Is Bitter!" The Armenian Genocide in the Memoirs of Kurdish Intellectuals

Chapter 10. Investigating a Genocidal Literary Style: Analysis of the Memoirs of Young Turk Leaders

Chapter 11. The Escape Route through Dersim: Remembering the Passage from Death to Life in Armenian Refugee Narratives

Chapter 12. The Specter of the Armenian Genocide in a Family from Van: On Racialization, Gendered Narratives, and Intergenerational Transmission

Epilogue. Traumatic, Multidirectional, Implicated: Life Stories in the Wake of Genocide

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-335-6

OCLC:

1568059906