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Remembrance
and Denial
The Case of the Armenian Genocide
Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian |
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The
Armenian Genocide that began in World War I, during the drive to transform
the plural Ottoman Empire into a monoethnic Turkey, removed a people from
its homeland and erased most evidence of their 3000-year-old material and
spiritual culture. For the rest of this century, changing world events,
calculated silence, and active suppression of memory have overshadowed the
initial global outrage and have threatened to make this calamity "the forgotten
genocide" of world history.
Fourteen leading scholars here examine the Armenian Genocide from a variety
of perspectives to refute those efforts and show how remembrance and denial
have shaped perceptions of the event. Many of the chapters draw on archival
records and court proceedings to review the precursors and process of the genocide,
examine German complicity, and share the responses of victims, perpetrators,
and bystanders. |
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"Richard
Hovannisian has done genocide and Holocaust scholarship a great service
by producing a collection of fresh essays which expand our knowledge and
explore revealing facets heretofore ignored. The work is particularly powerful
in exploding the myths of denial and demonstrating how power and careerism
corrupt scholars and scholarship to the detriment of truth and common decency."—Dennis
R. Papazian, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Richard Hovannisian is a professor of Armenian
and Near Eastern History and holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation
Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
