Armenians Beyond Diaspora

Making Lebanon their Own

AvTsolin Nalbantian

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Alternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-17
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Alternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474458566

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Tsolin Nalbantian is Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University. She is co-series editor of Critical, Connected Histories (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq & Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies and History Compass. She has written the entry ‘Armenians in the Middle East’ for the Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East (2018).

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What emerges (from this book) is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 - Repositioning Armenians in Newly Post-Colonial Nation-States: Lebanon and Syria, 1945/1946 Chapter 2 - The Homeland Debate, Redux: The Political-Cultural Impact of the 1946-1949 Repatriation to Soviet ArmeniaChapter 3 - Cold War, Bottom-up: The 1956 Catholicos ElectionChapter 4 - Making Armenians Lebanese: The 1957 election and the ensuing 1958 conflictConculsionBibliography