Armenians Beyond Diaspora

Armenians Beyond Diaspora Making Lebanon Their Own - Alternative Histories

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781474458566
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.891992095692
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: ix, 225
Weight: 476g
Height: 234mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 20mm