The Transgenerational Consequences of the Armenian Genocide: Near the Foot of Mount Ararat (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide)

This book brings together the Armenian Genocide process and its transgenerational outcome, which are often juxtaposed in existing scholarship, to ask how the Armenian Genocide is conceptualized and placed within diasporic communities. Taking a dual approach to answer this question, Anthonie Holslag studies the cultural expression of violence during the genocidal process itself, and in the aftermath for the victims. By using this approach, this book allows us to see comparatively how genocide in diasporic communities in the Netherlands, London and the US is encapsulated in an historic narrative. It paints a picture of the complexity of genocidal violence itself, but also in its transgenerational and non-spatial consequences, raising new questions of how violence can be perpetuated or interlocked with the discourse and narratives of the victims, and how the violence can be relived.-- Provided by publisher This book brings together the Armenian Genocide process and its transgenerational outcome, which are often juxtaposed in existing scholarship, to ask how the Armenian Genocide is conceptualized and placed within diasporic communities. Taking a dual approach to answer this question, Anthonie Holslag studies the cultural expression of violence during the genocidal process itself, and in the aftermath for the victims. By using this approach, this book allows us to see comparatively how genocide in diasporic communities in the Netherlands, London and the US is encapsulated in an historic narrative. It paints a picture of the complexity of genocidal violence itself, but also in its transgenerational and non-spatial consequences, raising new questions of how violence can be perpetuated or interlocked with the discourse and narratives of the victims, and how the violence can be relived.-- OCLC Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 1-16 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 The Remembrance of a Genocide (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 19-55 The Great Diaspora (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 57-93 The Loss of Identity (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 95-185 Intermezzo (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 187-190 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 Between Suffering and Resurrection (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 193-240 The Struggle for Identity (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 241-255 Jermag Charrt (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 257-275 Conclusion (Anthonie Holslag)....Pages 277-286 Back Matter ....Pages 287-291