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Gendered Silences, Gendered Memories: New Memory Work on Islamized Armenians in Turkey

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ID19455459
AuthorsAyşe Gül Altınay (0000-0001-6388-1093, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume24
Issue2
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueL Homme (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0439-4216 • E-ISSN: 1953-8103
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.7767/lhomme.2013.24.2.73
OpenAlexW1974425365
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Since 2004, at least 18 books (across the genres of memoir, fiction, oral history, history, and historiography) have been published in the Turkish language on the Islamized Armenian survivors of the 1915 genocide and the (post)memories of their “Muslim” grandchildren. This emerging body of memory work poses significant challenges to Turkish national self-understanding, the official politics of genocide denial as well as to the growing scholarship on 1915. It also calls for a critical analysis of the nine decades of silence on Islamized Armenians in all historiographies. This article aims to discuss the need for a feminist perspective to make sense of both this silence and the recent process of unsilencing

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Armenian · Armenian diaspora in the Ottoman Empire · Armenian diaspora in Turkey · Armenian genocide · Art · Art history · Denial · feminist historiography · gendered silence · Genocide · genocide denial · Historiography · Linguistics · Memoir · Memory work · Political science · Politics · postmemory · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Silence · Sociology · The Holocaust · Turkish · Turkish national identity · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Historical Turkish Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Memory, violence, and history · Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society

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