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The lens of life stories allows us to identify contested memories and counter-narratives, thus offering new ways of interpreting the social dynamics that led to acts of genocidal violence and their remembrance, yet also to their denial. Lives in Fragments focuses on life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide, and offers a nuanced understanding of genocide’s complex historical and social dimensions. Diverse autobiographical sources become subject of analysis in chapters that investigate the historiography and remembrance of the Armenian genocide.
Eren Yıldırım Yetkin is based at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Berlin (KHSB).
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Acknowledgments
Biographies in Genocide: An Introduction
Eren Yıldırım Yetkin, Nazan Maksudyan, and Adnan Çelik
Part I: Methodological Questions on Biography, History, and Memory
Chapter 1. Methodological Questions on the Intersection of Biography and Memory
Lena Inowlocki and Eren Yıldırım Yetkin
Chapter 2. Biographical Approaches to the Study of the Armenian Genocide
Nazan Maksudyan
Part II: Lives in Genocide
Foreword to Part II
Fatma Müge Göçek
Chapter 3. The Library and the Survivor: Writing in Exile after the Armenian Genocide
Boris Adjemian
Chapter 4. A Biographical Approach to Genocidal Ruination: Knowledge, Nature and Dispossesion in Johannes Jakob Manissadjian’s (1862–1942) Lifework
Nazan Maksudyan
Chapter 5. Sahak II Khapayan (1849–1939), Catholicos of Cilicia, as a Witness to Massacres and Genocide
Bedross Der Matossian
Chapter 6. Remembering the Survivors by Name: From Angora to Philadelphia, the Perpetual Exile of Sourpik Tekian (1868–1957)
Talin Suciyan and Paul Vartan Sookiasian
Chapter 7. Reviving the Past: Post-Genocide Armenian Memory through Song, Dance, and Photography
Vahe Tachjian
Part III: Afterlives of Violence and Genocide
Foreword to Part III: Reconsidering “Biography” under Conditions of Genocide: A Prologue
Yael Navaro
Chapter 8. Dönme, Dönek, Double: On the (Epistemologically Troubling) Figure of the Islamized Armenian
Alice von Bieberstein
Chapter 9. “The Truth is Bitter!” The Armenian Genocide in the Memoirs of Kurdish Intellectuals
Adnan Çelik
Chapter 10. Investigating a Genocidal Literary Style. Analysis of the Memoirs of Young Turk Leaders
Duygu Tasalp
Chapter 11. The Escape Route through Dersim. Remembering the Passage from Death to Life in Armenian Refugee Narratives
Annika Törne
Chapter 12. The Specter of the Armenian Genocide in a Family from Van. On Racialization, Gendered Narratives, and Intergenerational Transmission
Eren Yıldırım Yetkin
Epilogue: Traumatic, Multidirectional, Implicated: Life Stories in the Wake of Genocide
Michael Rothberg
Index