Contributor
Hovannisian, Richard G.
Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2007.
Descriptionxii, 449 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Note:PART 1. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY: The Armenian genocide: wartime radicalization or premeditated continuum? / Richard Hovannisian -- Philosophy and the age of genocide: reflections on the Armenian genocide / Michael Papazian -- Rethinking dehumanization in genocide / Henry C. Theriault -- Testimony: from document to monument / Marc Nichanian -- PART 2. LITERATURE, ART, FILM, AND MUSIC: Across the chasm: from catastrophe to creativity / Barlow Der Mugrdechian -- The Armenian genocide in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake / Marc Aram Mamigonian -- Historical memory: threading the contemporary literature of Armenia / Rubina Peroomian -- Léon Tutundjian-TRAuma in ART / Jean Murachanian -- Historicization of the Armenian catastrophe: from the concrete to the mythical / Hrag Varjabedian -- The diasporic witness: reconstruction of testimony by contemporary Los Angeles artists / Ramela Grigorian Abbamontian -- Musical perspectives on the Armenian genocide: from Aznavour to "system of a down" / Jack Der-Sarkissian -- PART THREE. EDUCATION: "No mandate left behind"? genocide education in the era of high-stakes testing / Nicole E. Vartanian -- Teaching about the Armenian genocide / Adam Strom -- Exposure of the Armenian genocide in cyberspace: a comparative analysis / Hagop Gulludjian -- PART 4. COMPARATIVE DIMENSIONS: The Assyrian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and adjacent territories / Anahit Khosroeva -- Greek labor battalions in Asia Minor / Speros Vryonis, Jr. -- Comparative aspects of the Armenian and Jewish cases of genocide / Tigran Matosyan -- The Armenian genocide in the Syrian press / Nora Arissian -- A legacy of paradox: U.S. foreign policy and the Armenian genocide / Suzanne E. Moranian -- French society and the Armenian genocide / Philippe Videlier -- PART 5. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND RECONCILIATION: Turkish historiography and the unbearable weight of 1915 / Fatma Müge Göçek -- Venturing into the minefield: Turkish liberal historiography and the Armenian genocide / Bedross Der Matossian -- Can memory of genocide lead to reconciliation? / Elazar Barkan -- Anatomy of post-genocide reconciliation / Simon Payaslian.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
