The Historiographic Perversion

Գրքի շապիկի երեսը
Columbia University Press, 2009 - 205 էջ

Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events.

Nichanian's book argues that both law and history fail to contend with the very nature of events for which there is no archive (no documents, no witnesses). Both history and law fail to address the modern reality that events can be--and are now being--perpetrated that depend upon the destruction of the archive, turning monstrous deeds into nonevents. Genocide, this book makes us see, is in one sense the destruction of the archive. It relies on the historiographic perversion.

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The Names and the Archive
1
The 1994 Campaign
19
Between Amputation and Imputation
33
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The Historiographic Perversion
Marc Nichanian
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The Historiographic Perversion
Marc Nichanian
Մասամբ դիտվող - 2009

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Հեղինակի մասին (2009)

Marc Nichanian is professor of Armenian literature and culture at Columbia University. He has published three volumes of Gam, a journal of literary analysis, and is the author of Writers of Disaster: Armenian Literature in the Twentieth Century. Gil Anidjar(PhD, comparative literature, UC Berkeley) is professor (and chair) of religion, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford, 2003), Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Stanford, 2008), and, most recently, Blood: A Critique of Christianity (Columbia, 2014). His interests include political theology, monotheistic religions, and continental philosophy.

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ՎերնագիրThe Historiographic Perversion
Armenian Research Center collection
ՀեղինակMarc Nichanian
Թարգմանիչ.Gil Anidjar
ԱջակցողGil Anidjar
Editionillustrated
ՀրատարակիչColumbia University Press, 2009
Original fromՄիչիգանի համալսարան
Digitized13 Հուլիս 2011
ISBN0231149085, 9780231149082
Length205 էջ
  
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