Armenians Beyond Diaspora : Making Lebanon their Own (Alternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean)

Nalbantian, Tsolin

Edinburgh University Press（2019/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474458566
• DDC分類 305.891992095692

Full Description

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

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 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 Armenia

Chapter 3 - Cold War, Bottom-up: The 1956 Catholicos Election

Chapter 4 - Making Armenians Lebanese: The 1957 election and the ensuing 1958 conflict

Conculsion

Bibliography